Large Garden Ideas

How to create a spectacular rockery with beautiful alpines

A well-designed rockery will add structure and interest to your garden, as well as being an excellent way in which to recycle unwanted bricks, tiles, and paving slabs

Various perennial plants in a small rockery in a summer garden

Variety of colourful wild flowers including magenta coloured mallow trifida with vivid green eye, growing in a garden near Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

The best cut flowers to grow for a cutting garden

Mary Berry's Henley garden in summer with estate fencing, hydrangeas and lawn

Step inside Mary Berry’s stunning Henley garden

St Timothee

Lovingly worked on over the past 15 years, St Timothee is the inspiration you need to create a year-round garden that sparkles especially brightly in spring

Sue Martin's Kent cottage garden 1 Brickwall Cottages

“There was no plan: I simply chipped away at it” – why Sue Martin’s Kent cottage garden is a charming garden with timeless appeal

Norton Conyers

Norton Conyers: This restored walled garden in North Yorkshire has the sort of unmanicured authenticity that enchants visitors despite its splendid scale

Matthew recommends the Azores for their lush green scenery of laurel forests and volcanic lakes.

Matthew Butler & Joshua Parker share the gardens which left a lasting mark

Giverny

Three gardens have made a lasting impression on designer and broadcaster Matthew Wilson

Long Barn

The intricate layout of Long Barn in Kent sparkles in winter frost

Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire

4 of the most beautiful winter walks at Britain’s best National Trust gardens

The Old Vicarage

Late autumn is a special time of year at The Old Vicarage in Wormingford

Autumn at Stourhead

The 10 best stately homes gardens to see autumn colours in Britain

Charleston

Sweet disorder: get the Charleston look with these cottage garden-style plants