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

Inspired ideas and buys for the great outdoors

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

In December 1997, we moved from a tiny London garden to our new home, Old Park Barn in Buckinghamshire. It was daunting – a huge leap of faith from gardening in an urban courtyard to essentially an ov

A recent trip to Plymouth Gin, the oldest gin distillery in the UK, just up the road from me in Devon, has inspired me to plant a juniper bush in my flavour garden. It’s always useful to grow some eve

Wrapped in the wild and timeless beauty of North West Wales, its landscape forged by the elemental forces of ice, wind and rain, is an oasis of calm and order. It is the beautiful and unique garden of