Tim Martin, National Trust head gardener at Greys Court in Oxfordshire, on the joys of spring and the beauty of slow gardening

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

Spring is heralded with a rich array of rocky gems in this wonderful west Scottish garden

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

A dedicated couple have restored medieval wonder to Hindringham Hall in Norfolk

When garden designer James Scott of The Garden Company was asked by the National Trust to work on a restoration of the Long Garden at Cliveden, he leapt at the chance. Partly it was the prestigious lo