Garden plagued by problems? Here’s how to transform any space

Romantic planting with a sleek modern style creates a striking mix in this Hertfordshire garden

The garden was a blank canvas when I first moved in. A single tree. A lawn invaded by alkanet. London clay so hard you couldn’t push a spade in. I was more concerned with urgent matters such as the de

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Discover the varieties that shine in every season and learn how to give them the best start

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