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ON ANOTHER LEVEL
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ON ANOTHER LEVEL

With a brief to create a terraced garden in the Ibizan countryside, designer Juan Masedo has balanced the ancient and the modern in a remarkably subtle scheme

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March 2025
A cure for all ills?
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A cure for all ills?

In his final column, Dr Richard Claxton looks at how spending time in gardens and green spaces can actually help prevent illness and aid in its treatment

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March 2025
NATURE'S PLAYGROUND
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NATURE'S PLAYGROUND

Dutch garden and landscape designer Arjan Boekel has transformed his tiny town garden in the Netherlands into a miniature woodland glade

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4 mins  |
March 2025
Past perfect
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Past perfect

Every generation that has lived at Doddington Place in Kent has played a part in the evolution of the garden, resulting in a graceful and historical mix of then and now

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March 2025
Seasonal shift
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Seasonal shift

In the first of a new container-planting series, James Horner, garden maker at Benton End, the one-time home of the artist and plantsman Cedric Morris, suggests three arrangements to celebrate spring

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March 2025
'Don't think everything has to be perfect'
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'Don't think everything has to be perfect'

Garden designer and TV presenter Adam Frost on the year that changed his attitude to life, the book that came out of it and what he's up to next

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March 2025
FRONT GARDEN IDEAS
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FRONT GARDEN IDEAS

Designer Charlotte Harris offers inspiration and advice on making the most of the small awkward space outside your front door

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10 mins  |
March 2025
CHRIS THOROGOOD
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CHRIS THOROGOOD

The deputy director and head of science at Oxford Botanic Garden on his early obsession with squirting cucumbers, his detailed botanic art and clambering over cliff edges

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March 2025
Private passion
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Private passion

For more than 50 years, Maurice Foster has been amassing a collection of woody plants in his garden at White House Farm, which has grown into a precious horticultural resource

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4 mins  |
March 2025
HOME STYLE
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HOME STYLE

Maddie Bailey of Forest London shares advice on the best houseplants to grow in awkward areas

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5 mins  |
March 2025
A FINE ROMANCE
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A FINE ROMANCE

In her thoughtful new book, designer Jo Thompson shows how her trademark style can be modernised with a commitment to biodiversity, says Claire Masset

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March 2025
Thrown and grown
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Thrown and grown

Flower farmer and florist Rachel Siegfried reveals how a passion for pottery has led to her designing and throwing vases for her seasonally grown blooms

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4 mins  |
March 2025
THE VALUE OF A GARDEN
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THE VALUE OF A GARDEN

The Government plans to build 1.5 million new homes. It could also ensure that developers see the value, not just the cost, of having a garden, says Lucy Conochie

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March 2025
LEWISIA
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LEWISIA

These brightly coloured, early spring-flowering alpine plants are perfect for rock and crevice gardens or tumbling down a stone wall

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March 2025
All in good time
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All in good time

Alongside his Midlands nursery, John Massey has created a glorious garden that has been allowed to mature gradually

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4 mins  |
March 2025
Bright blooms
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Bright blooms

Flowering shrubs bring much needed colour and scent to the garden in late winter and early spring. Expert Tony Kirkham selects the best

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6 mins  |
February 2025
SWEET DREAMS
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SWEET DREAMS

A new book on one of the UK's favourite flowers is filled with beautiful photography, but is more than a coffee-table tome, says cut-flower grower Georgie Newbery

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February 2025
VERDANT VALLEY
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VERDANT VALLEY

For his own Mediterranean garden, designer Maurizio Usai has gone against the trend for drought-tolerant planting and created a lush, green natural oasis

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February 2025
Food for thought
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Food for thought

More people than ever want to grow their own, for a variety of reasons, says Dr Richard Claxton, and this one thing can improve our health and help the planet

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February 2025
CREATING CONTEMPORARY PLANTING BEDS
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CREATING CONTEMPORARY PLANTING BEDS

Designer Charlotte Harris reflects on the shift towards organically shaped 'island' planting beds, and reveals inside tips on how to get the right effect

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8 mins  |
February 2025
ARE PLANTS PEOPLE TOO?
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ARE PLANTS PEOPLE TOO?

Some recent research suggests plants may be able to learn, sense and communicate. So, asks Darryl Moore, should we now rethink how we treat them?

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February 2025
HEUCHERA AND TIARELLA
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HEUCHERA AND TIARELLA

With their striking foliage in a range of bold colours, heucheras, and the associated heucherellas and tiarellas, are low-maintenance plants that offer year-round colour

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February 2025
The future for Sissinghurst
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The future for Sissinghurst

The climate crisis is affecting us all. Head gardener Troy Scott Smith outlines the challenges he faces and explains how he is now working differently

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February 2025
JINNY BLOM'S - favourite plants
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JINNY BLOM'S - favourite plants

Award-winning landscape designer Jinny Blom set up her studio in 2000 and has since designed many beautiful, thoughtful gardens, both large and small, around the world.

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9 mins  |
February 2025
BEECH GARDENS at the Barbican, ten years on
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BEECH GARDENS at the Barbican, ten years on

As a new phase of planting begins, Professor Nigel Dunnett looks at how the iconic public gardens he created at The Barbican Estate in London have evolved over the past decade

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February 2025
I am fundamentally lazy and put off gardening chores'
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I am fundamentally lazy and put off gardening chores'

Our resident botanist Dr James Compton talks about his new collaboration with Hans Walter Lack and Martin Callmander

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3 mins  |
February 2025
KEITH HAMMETT
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KEITH HAMMETT

The sweet pea and dahlia breeder on his early love of breeding, the excitement of seeing dahlias in the wild and finding the missing slice of the sweet pea colour spectrum

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February 2025
DAYDREAM BELIEVER
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DAYDREAM BELIEVER

Fuelled by the temptations of plant catalogues, Nigel Slater fills winter days imagining his dream garden

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4 mins  |
February 2025
WHY SHOULD I VOLUNTEER?
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WHY SHOULD I VOLUNTEER?

Giving your free time to volunteer in the community or as a mentor can have a big impact, and also benefit you in ways you can't imagine, says John Wyer

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October 2024
EARTHLY CONCERN
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EARTHLY CONCERN

Weeds, slugs, birds and mice - all are welcome on Birch Farm in Devon, where Joshua Sparkes seeks to respect the local ecosystem and mimic nature in his innovative approach to growing

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4 mins  |
October 2024

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