Marian Boswall defends the building of lakes, which bring both beauty and biodiversity

Reader Caroline Crocker celebrates her chance to reclaim the family garden to create a plant lover’s paradise with a focus on climate resilience.

Orderly hedges and classic features contrast with unruly wildlife-friendly planting in this rural Hertfordshire garden

Romantic planting with a sleek modern style creates a striking mix in this Hertfordshire garden

It was while filming an episode of Lewis in an Oxford college garden that Tom Simpson fell in love – and within moments decided to abandon his peripatetic life in film and retrain as a garden designer

Within a framework of mature trees, this naturalistic Surrey garden contains a mix of informal planting and formal topiary