Gardens by our Top 50 Garden Designers
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A harmonious Dorset rose garden designed by Isabel and Julian Bannerman
Having turned a farmyard into a walled garden at Upper Sydling House in Dorset, Susanne Cooper commissioned Isabel and Julian Bannerman to help her to create the beautifully structured series of harmonious spaces that showcase more of her beloved roses and frame views of the meadows beyond
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Arne Maynard fills a Tuscan garden with fragrance, texture and colour
Tasked with revitalising the garden of this old Tuscan farmhouse, Arne Maynard has taken his cue from both the local vernacular and the English sensibility of its owners. His design combines stone terraces built into the hillside with multi-layered planting, which introduces colour, fragrance and texture, and flows into the rolling landscape
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A perfectly formed small city garden by our Garden Designer of the Year
Combining a canopy of trees with lush, layered planting and a central Barbara Hepworth sculpture, Luciano creates the illusion of a more expansive space
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Tom Stuart-Smith's vibrant yet tranquil design for the garden at The Hepworth Wakefield
A glorious showcase for the elemental works by its namesake and other artists, the garden at The Hepworth Wakefield gallery was devised by Tom Stuart-Smith as a vibrant yet tranquil space with distinctive plantings that captivate visitors throughout the year
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Jinny Blom has created a lush tropical garden in the heart of London
Garden designer Jinny Blom turned to giants ferns and tropical colour to create this dense, secluded hideaway in the heart of London
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The garden of a former abbey combining ecclesiastical symmetry with informal planting
On the site of a former abbey in Oxfordshire, designer Angel Collins has combined ecclesiastical symmetry with informal planting to create a garden that is both awe-inspiring and delightfully domestic
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A derelict Cotswolds garden revived with enchanting, naturalistic planting
Landscape designer James Alexander-Sinclair has overseen the development of this Cotswold hilltop garden for 12 years, making the most of the panoramic view and devising enchanting, naturalistic plantings for a sheltered courtyard
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Arabella Lennox-Boyd reimagines an historic Pennsylvania garden
At Andalusia, a family-owned 18th-century estate in Pennsylvania, the UK-based landscape designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd has created a tapestry of colourful planting and added to its collection of trees, which has since been awarded arboretum status
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Landscape designer Emily Erlam's elegantly structured London garden
In her own London garden, landscape designer Emily Erlam has constructed a series of elegant terraces, each with its own mood, which provide structure for Mediterranean plantings and natural canopies
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Arne Maynard's design for a Devon garden that slowly melts into its rural landscape
Nestled in Devon’s Blackdown Hills, the gardens at South Wood Farm, designed by Arne Maynard, are full of intimate corners and delicate details that blend harmoniously with the postcard-perfect thatched house at its heart
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An ever-evolving garden by Arne Maynard that bursts to life in spring
The garden of an Oxfordshire manor house has been reinvigorated over many years by the designer Arne Maynard, with bold, distinctive new elements set against the existing framework
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The romantic Welsh garden of Sarah Price
Clare Foster visits garden designer Sarah Price at her family house in Wales, where she is bringing a Victorian walled garden back to life
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Take a video tour of garden designer Alasdair Cameron's rural idyll in Devon
In the beautiful garden of his Devon farmhouse, landscape designer Alasdair Cameron has put his principles into practice, combining his love of plants with the needs of his young family
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Dan Pearson takes us on a tour of his wild, beautiful Somerset garden at the culmination of the growing season
Completing his series, Dan Pearson admires the effects of the season’s bounty on his Somerset smallholding – from the productivity of the kitchen garden and orchard to the beauty of the hay meadow
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A country garden perfectly at home in a sleepy, steep-sided valley
Libby Russell has spent 15 years developing her own Somerset garden, unifying two distinct halves within a valley, filling it with year-round colour and cultivating a sense of comfort and joy
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How Lowther Castle became the most ambitious garden restoration project in Europe
New life has been brought to the ruins of Lowther Castle in Cumbria, thanks to an ambitious planting project undertaken by James Lowther and a formidable team of garden restoration specialists, including the designer Dan Pearson
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Designer Dan Pearson takes us on a tour of his wild, beautiful Somerset garden
In the first of a four-part seasonal series, Dan Pearson describes how he and his partner Huw Morgan have nurtured the land on their Somerset smallholding to enrich biodiversity, creating wildflower meadows alongside a garden that deliberately echoes this wild, beautiful place
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Tom Stuart-Smith's own garden serves as a laboratory for his planting experiments
In an extract from 'Tom Stuart-Smith: Drawn From The Land', Tim Richardson takes us inside the garden designer's own private garden, where he experiments with plants and uses it as a place for contemplation
Stories of conservation for Earth Day
A garden on the Devon coast in tune with nature, ecology and its surroundings
In line with the owners’ environmental vision, our Garden Designer of the Year Dan Pearson has created a sustainable and productive garden in tune with nature, which celebrates its spectacular location on the Devon coast
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Tom Stuart Smith transforms a walled garden into an intimate, plant-filled retreat
When Tom Stuart-Smith was commissioned to redesign an unusual D-shaped walled garden at Culham Court in Berkshire, he created an intimate, plant-filled space composed of three distinct areas