Connecting with nature

Interior designer Michelle Murphy played matchmaker as well as designer when transforming a ranch house into a two-storey home for a blended family

With its colourful façades, lush gardens and striking views, Portmeirion belongs on the Italian Riviera, but this work of art was built in Wales

AS PART OF OUR 40TH BIRTHDAY CELEBR ATIONS, WE SHOWC A SE THE TECH, TRENDS AND EVENTS TAKING ROOT IN THE WORLD OF GA RDENING THIS SUMMER – AND ANNOUNCE AN EXCITING COLL ABOR ATION WITH HOR ATIO’S GA RDEN AT THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW

Interiors inspired by places near and far will always result in schemes that are richly layered and tell a story

Anticipation starts to build every autumn, when the Royal Horticultural Society announces the gardens for its Chelsea Flower Show, which runs from 20 to 24 May. Between then and the show’s gates openi

There’s a quiet yet palpable energy as you wander around Margate on the Kent coast. It’s a feeling perhaps not dissimilar to what it must have felt like in the 1730s when this little-known Tudor fishi