Small gardens

Limestone steps are a solution to coping with slopes. Wide steps create an elegant descent down a sloping garden

How to cope with a sloping garden

Container display using a mass-planting of daffodils

Inspiration and advice for planting bulbs in pots

roof reservoir

Saving water in garden design

Suburban garden designed by Tom Massey

Modernist hard landscaping in a suburban garden

A small garden designed by Jack Wallington

Colour and lightness in a small family garden

Ula Maria's garden

Ula Maria’s garden of childhood memories

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Garden path ideas: how to design a garden path

Mary Keen’s greenhouse is cleverly positioned to form part of the circuit around the garden; you can admire her collection of pelargoniums by walking right through it. The path here is lined with jewel-coloured dahlias and the tall, luminous-blue Salvia patens ‘Guanajuato’ emerging from clouds of Erigeron annuus.

Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

Courtyard garden by Arjan Boekel

Inspiring gardens A forest-like garden in the city

The Millboard boardwalk is laid flush with the reclaimed York stone paved area by the house and they share the same soft, beige tones, for a seamless sense of flow. The vivid blues of Campanula persicifolia and Geranium Rozanne (= ‘Gerwat’) leap out against the rich-green foliage

A small modern meadow garden by Jenny Bloom

A gravel garden designed by Colm Joseph

A modern suburban Suffolk retreat by Colm Joseph

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Reducing plastic in your garden and allotment

White colour palette in the garden

How to create a luminous oasis in a small modern garden

Alasdair Cameron's small garden with green foliage in London

How to design a small family garden

George Cullis garden

How to use colour and layers in small gardens