Garden Architecture

There's nothing more romantic than a flower-draped pergola...

If you're lucky enough to have a loggia or veranda attached to your house, it's the perfect place for relaxing or entertaining outdoors

Our gallery of city gardens has plenty of ideas for designing an appealing outdoors space within the limits of the urban jungle, from compact seating areas to pretty planters, lush planting to elegant decking

Centuries of thoughtful planting and creative additions have made the gardens at Lismore Castle an enchanting haven of fragrant meadows, towering magnolias and ancient stone gateways

Thirty years after creating the timeless gardens at Shute House in Dorset, landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe was tempted out of retirement to revitalise them for its new owners, in what would transpire to be his final project

Decking, patio and terrace design ideas for gardens gardens small and large, from traditional brick paving to modern tiles and wooden decking from House & Garden

House & Garden Top 50 garden designer Emily Erlam, who was responsible for the glorious roof garden at Plimsoll Kings Cross, gives her tips for designing a roof garden, plus design ideas from our archive

A long summer calls for lazy days in the garden – what better way to entertain than around an outdoor kitchen, Mediterranean style?

In this London garden, designer Tom Massey has created a series of unfolding garden rooms linked by a manmade stream, which makes its way to the house through a woodland wilderness, a pretty potager and elegant formal areas

Moroccan gardens with their vivid colours and elaborate structures have much to teach. We look at some of the Marrakesh's most famous and inspiring examples

In an edited extract from 'Humphry Repton: Designing the Landscape Garden', we look at the gardens the 18th-century landscape designer created for Blaise Castle near Bristol

Using shells combed from British beaches and a mix of stone, gardener Charlie Day has created a magical escape for guests to discover

In a leafy London suburb, this lush garden has been thoughtfully landscaped to create distinct areas, the most delightful of which is a rustic summer house that serves many purposes

Below the hilltop village of Bomarzo in Lazio, north of Rome, is a woodland garden filled with unusual, arresting and sometimes grotesque statues carved out of volcanic rock for an eccentric sixteenth-century duke

Inspiration galore from our archive for planting your own blooming flower garden

At the Laskett in Herefordshire, where garden designer Sir Roy Strong has spent decades creating a distinctive and very personal space

In the first of a new series of profiles of craftspeople, Clare Foster meets Jay Davey, who creates bespoke garden structures from Somerset willow