Posts under ‘garden design’

Patricia Fox’s modern take on the potager, ‘Freshly Prepped’, went down a storm at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year. The designer decided to create a kitchen garden (which was also a kitchen in a garden), where every single plant was edible. But that wasn’t enough - this isn’t just a working veg plot [...]

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I’m quite a fan of mixing purely ornamental flowers and veg, but sometimes I wonder whether this is rather silly, given the number of stunning flowers  which go on to produce fabulous edible crops. So before you plant up your patch with plants you can’t eat, here are some crops with very striking [...]

Unless you have many rambling acres of gardens in which to grow your veg, chances are that like most F&F readers, you’ll be trying to combine flowers, pumpkins and somewhere to enjoy the fruits of your labours all in one plot. And growing veg doesn’t mean that you automatically sacrifice the chance of having a [...]

Jinny Blom is famous for creating swoon-worthy gardens. But even though every single garden she designs is stunning, each is very, very different. She gives F&F readers a tour of two of the most breathtaking.

Kathy Brown takes us through the creation of her incredible Winter Garden at Stevington, which opens to the public this month.
A photographer once phoned me up in January and asked whether it would be worth his while coming to visit. I was forced to say ‘NO’. I was shocked by my answer, never having considered [...]

Acres Wild is an award-winning garden design practice run by Debbie Roberts and Ian Smith. They enjoy creating bold structural gardens softened with naturalistic planting. Their portfolio is varied, ranging from windswept gardens to lush oases. And here are three of their most stunning designs.

Garden designer and writer James Alexander-Sinclair is well-known for his stunning country gardens. But he has also designed some incredible town plots. He gives us a tour of three of his best designs.

Bristol-based Katherine Roper has designed some enchanting small gardens. She takes us through three of them.

To kick off our fortnightly series featuring top garden designers, London-based Charlotte Rowe takes us through some of her most beautiful projects.

Generally, a bolting lettuce is a bad thing. The leaves are so sour you can’t eat them, and all your efforts in watering the plant and protecting it from slugs are entirely wasted. But some people grow lettuces just to see them bolt. Why?

One of the nice things about Hampton Court is that it is altogether a more practical flower show than some of its relatives. That’s not to say there is anything wrong with inspirational, high-end design, but every once in a while it is nice to step into a show garden and find that it really [...]

Kingsbrae Garden in New Brunswick, Canada, was once destined to become a dog-training facility. As much as we love dogs at F&F, we’re glad that never came to fruition, as the garden is stunning.
A bold planting scheme, running from serene Liatris and Monardas to cheerful poppies and knapweed, drifts through the organic public garden, which [...]

Believe it or not, this wildflower meadow is slap-bang in the centre of Southampton. It seems the council have seeded it in a rather dull bed of ornamental grasses. This new municipal planting seems to be growing in popularity: last year we found a meadow blooming in Broadmead, Bristol. It is such a refreshing sight: [...]

I love quirky, raffish gardens. In a small garden in particular, quirky details are so important. Which is why I’ve put this inspiration board together.

What was your favourite garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2009? Was it James May’s garden-that-wasn’t-a-garden, or bronze fennel and peonies in the Laurent Perrier garden?
And what designs are you taking home? True, Plasticine roses don’t suffer from aphids, but you might find model clematis suffers from wilt if exposed to bright sunlight. Chelsea is [...]