Living legacy

At Belcombe Court in Wiltshire, a historic landscape blends centuries-old architecture, classical planting and modern garden ideas

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

Butter Wakefield has spread her wings. Renowned for her beautifully detailed city gardens, she now has a five-acre, award-winning design in her portfolio. “I love our London gardens, but being able to

When Debbie Roberts and Ian Smith returned to their native West Sussex in 1988, after meeting on the landscape architecture degree course at what was then Leeds Polytechnic, they both knew they didn’t

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

Kitchen gardens can work in big and small spaces and country or urban landscapes as these charming plots prove – here’s to a bumper crop