Late summer dreams

Isabelle Palmer is an expert when it comes to using containers to turn small balconies and patios into something fabulously floral. Here, she advises us on how to team plants and planters to create different looks

A close observation of the season’s cycles and respect for ecology have been the guiding principles in the development of the garden at Highlands, in the High Weald of East Sussex

This airy, bright combination evokes the walled garden at Benton End, which in the decades since Cedric Morris’s death in 1982 has become what the writer Ronald Blythe once described as ‘a hay-meadow

Garden designer Isabelle Palmer shares her simple projects that will fill your outside space with colour

Finella Davenport A suburban garden in Cheshire ...

A major part of my gardening joy is visual, and as my knowledge and observational powers have improved over decades of gardening, so has my love of experimenting with colour schemes. When I first came