Through the Garden Gates
A Glimpse of Heaven
Chatsworth offers spectacle and grandeur, but there is so much more to this elegant Capability Brown landscape.
Through the Garden Gates
Our favourite gardens: A series of pieces from the Garden Collective and guests about the one place that feels incredibly special.
Through the Garden Gates
Through the Garden Gate
What makes a favourite garden? Design? Planting? Magnificence? Or something else, almost entirely unrelated to the place itself?
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Paradise is a State of Mind: Lessons from a Cornish Garden
Why does my own garden feel like a to-do list but someone else's feels like paradise? The Potager taught me that gardens are more than the weeding and the watering, and that there are deeper lessons to be found in this most special of places.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Kek
Cake and gardens have long held each other in a passionate and lingering embrace. Would a garden centre or open garden still be the same without cakes?
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A Room With a View
If you live in the middle of a city a room with a view is a bonus; if it is a view into a garden it is a blessing.
Inspirational gardens
Vita's Other Garden - Does It Really Exist?
The story of a truly magical garden that some think may not be there anymore.
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Goodbye To All That
A few days before writing this article I told everyone that I would be retiring as Chief Executive of the National Garden Scheme at the end of summer 2025 when I will have done 15 years. Time for some happy reflection