Ngs benefits from £1.5m grant

What better way to relax – and pick up some great ideas at the same time – than visiting a wonderful NGS garden?

Campaign urges government and councils to ramp up community food growing, reports Ian Hodgson

Four years ago, Joy Lewty, 62, from Garforth, Leeds, was handed a pack of seeds. That simple gesture set in motion a chain of events that would change her life.

With spaces for eating, socialising, alone time and hobbies, Tracey James and Paul Roye have created a garden specially designed to suit every member of their family

The theme for this year’s National Allotments Week, from 11 to 17 August, is Wellbeing. Five women reveal how their lives have changed for the better by spending time on their plot

FACED WITH AN UNINSPIRING SPACE, NICOLA SET TO WORK TRANSFORMING IT TO CREATE A GARDEN PACKED WITH LIFE, COLOUR AND COMFY SEATING