Natural development

Over a period of 20 years, designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd has been developing the gardens of this Berkshire home

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Gardening talent: Tayshan Hayden-Smith

Garden activist Tayshan is the driving force behind one of the legacy gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Waste not, want not

Informed by the ethos of permaculture, an edible forest garden sits easily in the Cornish landscape, despite a maverick planting palette

All things great and small

From the towering and the statuesque to the miniature and the understated, Jenny Barnes creates three displays to suit a variety of settings

Pure and simple

Designer Sheila Jack’s sparing use of colour in her own city garden transforms a partially shaded space into a luminous oasis of calm, just when she needs it at the end of a busy day

Plant profile: Nepeta

A classic, romantic, cottage-garden favourite, catmint is surprisingly robust, and possesses an essential quality for our times – drought-tolerance

Making a statement

In this small London garden, innovative materials and sympathetic planting combine to striking effect

Horticultural who’s who: Juliet Sargeant

HORTICULTURAL WHO’S WHO Juliet Sargeant The award-winning garden designer on helping to connect children with nature, finding her passion and how her medical training helps her clients to feel comfortable in their gardens WORDS ANNIE GATTI | PORTRAIT CRISTIAN BARNETT When Juliet Sargeant started her three-year degree in garden design in the early 1990s, she […]

Old-style charms

At Binny Plants in Scotland, nurseryman Billy Carruthers specialises in peonies with a range that combines the best of modern hybrids with tried-and-trusted old cultivars