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

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

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

In winter, when the art school here at Benton End closed for the year and the garden fell quiet, Cedric Morris would head to warmer climes to escape the chill of his 16th-century house, but also to pa

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

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