John and Jenny Brett have created an all-year garden design at St Mary’s, combining formal plant structures with colourful insect-friendly perennials, but in winter, when dusted with white and dancing with shadows, the garden shimmers

Romantic planting with a sleek modern style creates a striking mix in this Hertfordshire garden

It was while filming an episode of Lewis in an Oxford college garden that Tom Simpson fell in love – and within moments decided to abandon his peripatetic life in film and retrain as a garden designer

Reader Caroline Crocker celebrates her chance to reclaim the family garden to create a plant lover’s paradise with a focus on climate resilience.

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

Orderly hedges and classic features contrast with unruly wildlife-friendly planting in this rural Hertfordshire garden