A good time to visit The Old Rectory in Doynton is as dusk falls on a frosty December evening. Driving in through the gate, you’ll be cheered by the sight of two illuminated Portuguese laurel cylinder

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

The quiet beauty of winter sets the stage in this garden, where topiary shapes and the borrowed landscape are the main performers

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

When garden designers Julie Toll and Ian Kitson moved to Biggerside, a 17th-century farmhouse in Cumbria, they brought with them not just a shared vision, but the combined expertise needed to meld thi