GMG Awards 2026 - Garden Collective

Planting Design

Ground cover plants: The beautiful way to protect your soil

With our soil under threat from drought and erosion, keeping it covered is more important now than ever. Annie Guilfoyle turns her attention to finding the right ground cover plants for your garden.

Containers

Terracotta army: why I will never give up my collection of clay pots

In a world of plastic, be more terracotta. Jane Perrone makes the case for baked earth as the ultimate container for your favourite plants, indoors and out, plus the surprisingly simple trick (involving your dishwasher) that could save a dying pot.

Wellness & wellbeing

Start small, go slowly

Jane Perrone describes how heatwaves, burnout, and health struggles have turned her once-joyful garden into a source of stress, and shares five things that helped her recover and reclaim it as a source of joy.

Garden history

The Monster Behind the Shed

Buried behind Sandra Lawrence's shed was a colossal lawn roller, a relic of Britain's lawn-mad past. Uncovering its history led her into a forgotten world of striped grass, concrete-chic gardenalia, and a time when every respectable gardener needed an impracticably heavy roller.