Spring gardens
A secret London garden filled with magnificent magnolias
The beautiful magnolia and cherry trees in this London garden remain the centrepiece in an artful new design by Sheila Jack
By Kendra Wilson
A joyful garden in Gloucestershire filled with lovingly cultivated flowers
Vibrant colour, intoxicating scent and a sense of joy abound in Mary Keen’s Gloucestershire garden, where a courtyard filled with lovingly cultivated flowers leads to a gloriously untamed meadow with naturalised bulbs and young plants
By Non Morris
A Spanish garden in perfect harmony with its surroundings
This former farm near Toledo in Spain is a testament to landscape designer Fernando Martos’ belief that a garden should work in perfect harmony with its surroundings
By Clare Foster
The evolution of Sarah Raven's gardens in East Sussex
Alongside developing her hugely successful eponymous business, Sarah Raven still finds time for writing and teaching. But it is in the evolution of the gardens of Perch Hill, her family home in East Sussex, that her passion for horticulture is most clearly expressed
By Clare Foster
Country Gardens
A Cotswold garden brimful of unusual and uplifting spring flowers
Blossom-covered boughs and spring bulbs provide welcome colour at this time of year in the Cotswold garden of Clare Pike, who runs flower business Rich Pickings with Kate Gordon Lennox
By Clare Foster
Gardens by our Top 50 Garden Designers
An ever-evolving garden by Arne Maynard that bursts to life in spring
The garden of an Oxfordshire manor house has been reinvigorated over many years by the designer Arne Maynard, with bold, distinctive new elements set against the existing framework
By Clare Foster
The beauty of spring at Dan Pearson's Somerset garden
Continuing his seasonal series, Dan Pearson takes a moment to appreciate the beauty of spring on his Somerset smallholding, before the growing season really takes off
By Dan Pearson
Bank holiday weekend ideas
Beautiful gardens to visit this spring
After endless lockdown, a trip to lovely gardens as they bloom in early spring is just the tonic
By Leanne Walstow
Gardens
See the arrival of spring with snowdrops, narcissi and hellebores at the Dutch garden of Tuinfleur
At Tuinfleur in the Netherlands, plant collector Rika van Delden replaces thousands of bulbs every year and experiments with new varieties, ensuring all areas of the garden are full of interest