Nearly 20 years ago, we bought a house in north London, not just for the building itself, but because hidden behind the terraced row was a secluded garden – a delightful surprise in this central Londo

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

How does a fledging garden designer showcase her work? She creates something amazing on her own patch, naturally. While Emily Crowley-Wroe was studying at the Cotswold Gardening School in 2020, she us

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

Within a framework of mature trees, this naturalistic Surrey garden contains a mix of informal planting and formal topiary

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