It was while filming an episode of Lewis in an Oxford college garden that Tom Simpson fell in love – and within moments decided to abandon his peripatetic life in film and retrain as a garden designer

The quiet beauty of winter sets the stage in this garden, where topiary shapes and the borrowed landscape are the main performers

When garden designers Julie Toll and Ian Kitson moved to Biggerside, a 17th-century farmhouse in Cumbria, they brought with them not just a shared vision, but the combined expertise needed to meld thi

In winter, when the art school here at Benton End closed for the year and the garden fell quiet, Cedric Morris would head to warmer climes to escape the chill of his 16th-century house, but also to pa

John and Jenny Brett have created an all-year garden design at St Mary’s, combining formal plant structures with colourful insect-friendly perennials, but in winter, when dusted with white and dancing with shadows, the garden shimmers

Reader Caroline Crocker celebrates her chance to reclaim the family garden to create a plant lover’s paradise with a focus on climate resilience.