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If you’ve ever wondered what the gardens of some of Britain’s best landscape architects look like, there’s a new book that tours these places

W ith Adam Frost

IT’S midsummer, and this is usually the season when gardens are supposed to look their best – brimming with colour, buzzing with life, weed-free and calm, relaxing places for lounging with friends or

On a busy street in a small town in south Devon, there’s a secret door. I tentatively open it, head into what feels like a tunnel and then up some steps... into a pocket of magic. It’s an urban garden

The garden of Knowle House, East Sussex George Dillistone’s original Arts-and-Crafts design has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting, discovers George Plumptre

Andrew Oldham is busy bringing together vegetables and flowers to make the most of a sloping site