Lavender’s purple reign

Pick-your-own flower fields are blooming across Yorkshire and a trip to one is a treat for the senses as you relax and connect with the natural world. Emma Chesworth meets some of the growers

Yorkshire wine is having a moment, who’d have thought it? And there’s no better time than summer to pay a visit to one of the county’s vineyards and meet passionate winemakers

Tucked into a corner of the leafy and fertile North Shropshire countryside, the garden at Goldstone Hall Hotel feels far removed from the tumult of modern life. Wrapped in the rolling landscape, its a

Natural perennial planting, with light-diffusing grasses and pools of burnished colour, has elevated a relaxed Sussex farmhouse plot

Shropshire is not the UK’s driest county, admittedly, but at Wildegoose Nursery in the walled garden at Millichope Park, between Much Wenlock and Ludlow, owners Jack and Laura Willgoss have taken the

When a friend came to visit recently she loved all the colour in our flower garden but she took one look at the veg garden and said, “Ah, food!” There’s nothing better than harvesting delicious fresh