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

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

A dedicated couple have restored medieval wonder to Hindringham Hall in Norfolk

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

In spring, a beautiful eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis), its branches clothed from trunk to tip with cerise-purple flowers, steals the show at Sue Martin’s cottage garden in Cranbrook, Kent. It

Spring is heralded with a rich array of rocky gems in this wonderful west Scottish garden