Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Butter Wakefield has spread her wings. Renowned for her beautifully detailed city gardens, she now has a five-acre, award-winning design in her portfolio. “I love our London gardens, but being able to

There is no doubting that spring has arrived at Westwood House in Shropshire as a rainbow of tulips flower in borders, and the orchard comes alive with daffodils and blossom on the bough

When garden designer James Scott of The Garden Company was asked by the National Trust to work on a restoration of the Long Garden at Cliveden, he leapt at the chance. Partly it was the prestigious lo

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

Wrapped in the wild and timeless beauty of North West Wales, its landscape forged by the elemental forces of ice, wind and rain, is an oasis of calm and order. It is the beautiful and unique garden of