What i learned at dixter

Favourite garden The ‘Ditch’ at Dan Pearson and Huw Morgan’s Hillside garden captured me from my first visit. It’s the perfect encapsulation of embracing weeds, while still steering land to be biodive

The head gardener of Waterperry Gardens reflects on a life rooted there, and the lasting influence of its founder, Beatrix Havergal My connection with Waterperry began early: I was born in Waterperry!

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

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

Tim Martin, National Trust head gardener at Greys Court in Oxfordshire, on the joys of spring and the beauty of slow gardening

When garden designer James Scott of The Garden Company was asked by the National Trust to work on a restoration of the Long Garden at Cliveden, he leapt at the chance. Partly it was the prestigious lo