Rural gardens

Large-scale planting, cottage gardens and country escapes

Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith's Serge Hill Project

Serge Hill: Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith’s unique project to promote gardening

Deryck Body's garden

A life outdoors: Deryck Body and his farmhouse garden

Hill Farm

A winter garden filled with heathers

The Ditch at East Lambrook Manor, carpeted with snowdrops

Gardens to visit

Margery Fish’s remarkable snowdrops at East Lambrook Manor

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Stone Hill in Australia

A perennial garden around a modernist house in Australia

Hunting Brook Gardens

Gardens to visit

Jimi Blake’s borders at Hunting Brook Gardens in Ireland

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Urban gardens

Rooftop hideaways, urban gardens and small city retreats

Prolific design duo Harris Bugg have created an exquisite slice of urban meadow in a wildlife-friendly garden in north London. Words Kendra Wilson. Photography Jason Ingram.

How to create a wildlife-friendly modern garden in the city

Seating area at James Hitchmough's Sheffield garden in August.

How James Hitchmough used his Sheffield garden to trial South African summer perennials

Designer Martha Krempel's London garden, inspired by the US desert.

How a trip to the desert inspired my garden

Juergen Teller's studio garden

Fashion photographer Juergen Teller's studio garden

A garden with plants and flowers

Five lessons for a city space

Harriet Farlam and Ben Chandler's garden

Two beautiful small gardens

Rudbeckia fulgida

A garden fit for a modernist house

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International gardens

Gardens throughout the world

James and Helen Basson's garden

A Provençal garden with a naturalistic twist from James and Helen Basson

Simon Rickard's Australian garden

An Australian garden with a magpie approach to planting

James Basson designed garden in Provence

James Basson’s designs for a low-input Provençal garden

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Meet the gardeners

Meet the people behind the gardens

Michael Kennard sitting on buckets of his organic compost

Meet the gardeners

Compost Club: the new subscriber scheme that turns food waste into gardening gold

Deborah Evans, for Gardens Illustrated

Meet the gardeners

Deborah Evans on caring for historic landscapes and adapting to climate change

Vita Sackville-West

Inspiring female garden designers in British history

James Horner, head gardener at Benton End

James Horner appointed head gardener at Benton End

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