Gardens
Find inspiration from gardens of all sizes both in the UK and internationally
12 houses with amazing gardens that are for sale right now (one costs £35 million)
Properties on the market right now with amazing gardens and grounds.
Cottage whimsy, airy flowers and pretty seedheads: the 'pincushion' plants every garden needs
Discover how to grow scabious and other pincushion flowers that bring an airy feel to any border
This former concrete dairy yard has been transformed into a dreamy country garden
A disused dairy yard in Wiltshire provided the perfect setting for designer Sheila Jack’s own meadow-inspired garden
POV: You’ve inherited an historic English hall with two moats and incredible gardens – now what?
Once home to garden designer Xa Tollemache, Helmingham Hall is now under the care of a new generation of Tollemaches and is as glorious as ever, especially in winter when its bones are laid bare.
Words: Chris Young, Photographs: Richard Bloom
Commonwealth Games garden moves to its permanent home in Port Glasgow
The Saltire Garden, which took centre stage at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony this summer, has found a permanent home.
What's new?
'We've lost so much': The seed saver fighting back against industrial food
The head of the Heritage Seed Library, Catrina Fenton, on why she jumped at the chance to help preserve the seed and stories of more than 800 historic veg varieties.
3 pro tricks to create an abundant garden, that doesn’t need back-breaking maintenance
Top tips from a garden designer on having a beautiful garden without the back-breaking maintenance.
The best gardens to visit in August: experts recommend gardens to make a beeline for this month
Want to see August flowers in full bloom? Head to these gardens and nurseries recommended by two head gardeners
Kids bored? Here are 9 fun things you can do with them in the garden
Get kids off their screens and enjoying the outdoors with these nine creative ideas.
Award-winning designer Pollyanna Wilkinson reveals her experimental studio garden — and it looks as good in real life as it does on Insta
The garden of designer Pollyanna Wilkinson’s studio is a beautifully calm small space that she and her team use for inspiration and experimentation
Rural
25 iconic English gardens to visit for classic style and beautiful plants
Designer, writer and garden historian Penelope Hobhouse recommends 25 of the best English gardens to visit
If you're struggling with a sloping garden - this terraced design is full of smart ideas
By working closely with the architects,
designer Catherine MacDonald has
created a beautifully constructed
space on a steeply sloping garden
One man transformed his boring lawn into an incredible naturalistic garden that evokes top designers - here's how he did it
After having a lawned family garden for
many years, Steven Medley upped his game
to create a richly layered space
Meet the gardeners
'I hope that we can shift our focus to local, community-fed gardens': meet German horticulturist Jonathan Zerr
German horticulturist Jonathan Zerr is working to transform Bottengoms in Essex into a nature-first artists’ retreat.
"I don’t regret not studying law” – meet the National Trust for Scotland’s head of gardens and designed landscapes
The National Trust for Scotland’s head of gardens and designed landscapes, Ann Steele, on the delicate balance between garden conservation and future resilience.
Discover the beautiful National Dahlia Collection and the person who helped save it from disappearing
The National Dahlia Collection has had several homes since its inception in the 1980s, and now, under the care of a dedicated dahlia aficionado, it has been rescued and relocated once more to a new site in Cornwall.
Gardens to visit
Visiting a beautiful garden can be a wholly enriching experience. The benefits of visiting a garden – from mental health right through to exercise – are huge, and garden days out are perfect ways to have fun on your own, or as an entire family.
Regardless of how, and whoever you visit with, we have a host of suggestions of which gardens to visit, from gardens for the season, through to the gardens that are in full bloom and at their best each month. We have collated lists of the best gardens to visit with the help of our experts and many years of visiting gardens all around the UK, and beyond. We have gardens organised by theme, days out and local area, so you should find something for wherever you are and whatever garden experience you are looking for.
Enjoy our comprehensive guide to the best gardens to visit in the UK.
Summer holidays | The best gardens to visit for a family day out
Planning a day out with the kids this summer? From favourite characters to traditional games and outdoor theatre, we recommend the best gardens to visit.
12 great free gardens to visit in the UK this summer
You don't have to pay to get into see all beautiful gardens, many are free. Here's our list of the best free gardens in the UK
Key plants from Piet Oudolf's field at Hauser and Wirth
The garden at the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Somerset is a planting installation by garden designer Piet Oudolf called the Oudolf Field. Here you'll find 24 of the key plants that make up the stunning perennial meadow garden.
Gardens of the world
Worldwide gardens you need to see
Discover the dahlias in Frances Palmer's Connecticut garden, where she turned her tennis court into a flower patch
A gardener as well as a renowned potter, dahlia devotee Frances Palmer uses her own blooms to adorn her vessels, grown in her imaginatively conceived Connecticut garden.
A wildlife and child-friendly garden in California
In a California suburb where neat squares of lawn are the norm, landscape studio Terremoto has created something different.
Looking for a green-filled oasis in your shady plot? This small, narrow garden in the heart of Utrecht is a masterclass in how to create lush planting with texture and structure
Designer Erik Funneman has transformed a small, shady garden into a peaceful haven
Urban gardens
Amazing gardens from towns and cities
This back-to-front garden in the Cotswolds flips the expected to great effect
Emily Crowley-Wroe has used her own front garden in the Cotswolds to trial design and planting ideas.
The perfect solution for a long, thin, sloping garden that the whole family can enjoy
Over 20 years, garden designer Emily Erlam has nurtured and edited the plants in her sloping city garden to create an intriguing, immersive space. She explains how.
This 1960s home has been transformed by a contemporary chic garden makeover
For her own garden, designer Lucy Willcox has transformed a sloping site, blending the wildness of a neighbouring common with the sharp lines of her 1960s home.