The hanging garden

Make your patch a little piece of paradise with these smart ideas for layouts, materials, furniture and, of course, plants

Creating this rooftop oasis – seven storeys up with no lift – presented huge challenges but the effort paid off, with a stunning space high above the city

When garden designer Colm Joseph was asked to draw up plans for this garden, it was the view across fields and hedgerows to the south and west that drew his eye, as well as two ancient oak trees, one

Driving out of London to visit John Little at his home in south Essex, the busy road is flanked by tower blocks, which gradually give way to a post-industrial landscape of car manufacturing plants, st

Designers Studio DB let loose in their Upstate New York weekend home – a place where kids, animals and creativity all run free

Somewhere to cook, eat, relax and entertain… the owner of this snug plot wanted it all, but how to squeeze it all in? Here’s how her dream became a fun, fresh and contemporary reality