Garden Design

Explore beautiful and practical garden design ideas to upgrade your outdoor space. From small patios to full landscapes, find layout tips, plant combos, and creative inspiration for every style and size.

A newly built timber raised garden bed filled with dark rich soil and young green vegetable seedlings in neat rows, beside a garden path in a UK garden in soft daylight

How to Build a Raised Garden Bed: A Step-by-Step UK Guide

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A raised garden bed is one of the simplest ways to improve a garden. It lifts plants out of wet, ...

Clusters of campanula bellflowers in blue, purple and white blooming along a UK cottage garden border with green foliage and stone edging in soft daylight

Campanula: How to Grow Bellflowers for Months of Summer Colour

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There is a moment in early summer when a cottage garden border suddenly looks like it is ringing. Tall stems ...

Lush UK shade garden border with large hosta leaves, ferns, hellebore flowers and variegated brunnera foliage under trees in dappled light

Garden Plants for Shade: 21 Plants That Thrive in the Darkest Corners

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Every garden has a corner that defeats it. The strip along the north-facing wall where nothing seems to settle. The ...

Thriving UK cottage garden border with lush green plants, colourful perennials and healthy leaves in a mulched flower bed beside a lawn

How to Keep Plants Alive: 9 Simple Rules That Actually Work in a UK Garden

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Most plants do not die because their owners do not care. They die because they get too much of the ...

Brick garden edging separating a freshly mown lawn from a colourful cottage garden flower bed with lavender and perennials

Garden Edging: 10 Ideas That Turn Messy Borders Into Clean, Professional Lines

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There is a small detail that separates a garden that looks cared for from one that merely looks planted, and ...

Heuchera coral bells in purple, caramel and lime green in a shaded garden border

Heuchera (Coral Bells): The Complete UK Growing Guide for Year-Round Colour

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There is a corner in almost every British garden that defeats most plants: the strip along the north-facing fence, the ...

Magnolia tree in bloom in a UK garden

Magnolia Tree: The Complete Growing and Care Guide for UK Gardens

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There is a moment every spring, usually in late March or April, when a magnolia tree stops being just another ...

Agapanthus flowers in bloom in a garden

Agapanthus: The Complete Growing and Care Guide for UK Gardens

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There is a moment in high summer, usually in July, when a well-grown agapanthus stops you in your tracks. Tall, ...

Garden being prepared for winter

How to Winterize Your Garden: 14 Essential Jobs Before the First Frost

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The first hard frost can land in Scotland by mid-October and across much of England by early November — yet ...

Victorian Palm House at Kew Gardens reflected in a lake

Inside Kew Gardens: London’s Largest Botanical Garden

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There are gardens you stroll through, and then there is Kew. Spread across a vast sweep of south-west London, the ...

The Sunday Garden Letter

One thoughtful email each Sunday — London travel ideas, garden inspiration and home styling notes.