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In December 1997, we moved from a tiny London garden to our new home, Old Park Barn in Buckinghamshire. It was daunting – a huge leap of faith from gardening in an urban courtyard to essentially an ov

Butter Wakefield has spread her wings. Renowned for her beautifully detailed city gardens, she now has a five-acre, award-winning design in her portfolio. “I love our London gardens, but being able to

Nestled among medieval ruins in the charming Dorset village of Abbotsbury, Abbey Farm Flowers is – as the name suggests – a flower farm where you can stroll around and pick your own bouquet of beautif

This month, revamp your home with floral prints across wallpaper, soft furnishings and tableware, learn freehand machine embroidery and shop for the perfect indoor planter

In spring, a beautiful eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis), its branches clothed from trunk to tip with cerise-purple flowers, steals the show at Sue Martin’s cottage garden in Cranbrook, Kent. It

On the otherworldly beachscape of Dungeness, art agent Tiggy Maconochie has created a light-and art-filled house surrounded by sea and sky