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

REAL readers' gardens! Putting the garden to bed ...

REAL readers' gardens!

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

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

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