What goes up, must come down

Legend has it that Winnats got its name from the words ‘wind gates’. If you say it fast enough and imagine it coming from the mouth of an ancient Peakland shepherd shouting over a howling gale blowing

Walled gardens are an everyday feature of large country estates, but the splendid example at Broughton Grange defies all expectation. Rather than being a tucked-away working area for growing flowers a

River, meadow and wood converge around an old mill in Hampshire, where changing vistas create a bond between garden and landscape

The best of the season to inspire and admire

The village shop that sold pick ‘n’ mix sweets. A cowpat-strewn country lane with occasional glimpses of Glastonbury Tor. Leaping the wooden stile into Butterfly Wood. It’s over 30 years since I last

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the