Gardeners' own gardens

Though set on a loch in the Highlands, this unusual garden contains an abundance of colourful plants from South Africa, all thriving under the watchful eye of its horticulturist owners

The project gave Sheila the opportunity to put her sustainable principles into practice – from the reusing and local sourcing of materials to creating hardy plantings

Award winning garden designer Sarah Price has taken the garden at her grandparents' house in Wales in exciting new directions

In an extract from her book, ‘Gardens in my Life’ from 2021, legendary garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd tells the story of her family home and garden at the Palazzo Parisi in Oliveto, Lazio

For over 40 years, garden designer Christopher Masson has used his south London garden as an ever-evolving testing ground for his ideas, in which every inch is crammed with layered planting to create a lush and immersive space with appealing vistas.

In an extract from her new book Life in the Garden, the renowned American designer reminisces on the early days at her home, as she planted trees, filled beds with her favourite flowers and planned the distinctive garden ‘rooms’ that now define the space

In Ulf Nordfjell’s enchanting, glade-like garden in northern Sweden, hardy plants, layered borders and granite paths frame captivating views to the forest edge and river beyond

For garden designer Alison Jenkins, our green spaces should be beautiful, fruitful and sustainable, and her Somerset smallholding is the perfect example, with abundant beds of vegetables, herbs and edible flowers

Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite artist who once lived there, two designers have created an enchanting garden based around the remains of an Elizabethan manor at Biddulph Old Hall in Staffordshire

In an extract from 'A Year Full of Flowers', Sarah Raven describes the unique scents and colours of her garden in the height of summer

In just three years, our garden editor Clare Foster has created a glorious cottage garden that looks as though it has been there for much longer. Here, she describes how she has used plants as the core of her design

Within their smallholding on the Hampshire Downs, landscape architects Kim Wilkie and Pip Morrison have created an idyllic garden designed to be part of the wider picture, where wildlife, livestock and humans can exist harmoniously side by side in nature

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

Clare Foster visits garden designer Sarah Price at her family house in Wales, where she is bringing a Victorian walled garden back to life

Gardener Dan Pearson details the tasks that await him on his Somerset smallholding in the colder winter months – from building lodgings for his gunnera to furthering the ribbon of snowdrops on the lane verges that run alongside his land.

Continuing her series on designers' gardens, this month Clare Foster visits the Dutch garden of Piet Oudolf, the hub of his experimentation with plants for more than 30 years

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

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

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