Design 

I love crazy paving. And I don’t mean the psychedelic colours of 1970s driveways. Done well, using irregular paving slabs, it is full of character and design potential. It adapts easily to awkward sha

1 Gravel is a budget-friendly option for surfaces. It’s permeable and looks good. Here, we used a 6-10mm Thames Valley flint chipping, nicely angular so it locks together well underfoot. Any larger an

Design solutions

He might be a top landscape designer, but Chris Moss’s own garden in West Sussex is a masterclass in naturalistic, understated design

Walled gardens are an everyday feature of large country estates, but the splendid example at Broughton Grange defies all expectation. Rather than being a tucked-away working area for growing flowers a

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the