Laetitia Maklouf created this beautiful west London back garden from scratch in just seven months. The author of The Virgin Gardener tells F&F readers how she filled her plot with such beautiful, sumptuous style in such a short time.

Katherine Roper always wanted to design a beautiful vegetable garden. So she jumped at the chance to create one in the sunken walled garden of an Arts & Crafts house near Bath. As part of our Hot Plot series on good-looking kitchen gardens, here’s the tiny plot she designed.

Isabelle Palmer is a passionate balcony gardener. For years she has grown many beautiful plants on her north London balcony, and she now shares her fabulous taste with other gardeners through her shop, The Balcony Gardener. She’s also kind enough to share the secrets of her success with F&F readers.

Parham House and Gardens are steeped in incredible history, which makes wandering through those long, wide borders a step back into another world. That’s all very well and good, but when I spoke to new head gardener Tom Brown about the gardens, I discovered that the site is still pushing forward with all sorts of [...]

Fourteen generations of the Cholmeley family have tended the incredible walled gardens at Easton. That alone would be enough to make current owner Ursula Cholmely pretty proud, but over the past nine years, she has slaved over a restoration of a garden which had run to rack and ruin between the 400-year-old limestone walls that [...]

It’s all very well gazing at gardens with sweeping lawns and avenues of tall, tall trees, but let’s face it: very few of us have this kind of space. So today it’s incredibly inspiring to feature Martyn Cox’s tiny but incredibly beautiful back garden in East London. Martyn is a garden writer and has filled [...]

It was the two old ladies, who visited Gina Price annually to offer plenty of criticism, who helped Pettifers grow into the extravagantly beautiful, dreamy garden that it is today. ‘My knowledge in those days was virtually non-existent,’ says Gina. ‘I had no real idea back then how lucky I was to have their friendship.’ [...]

Gazing at other people’s gardens is one of my favourite pastimes. It’s one of the reasons F&F has so many real garden features on the site, as I just love gleaning inspiration and learning the story behind the plots. And it’s the really real gardens, like Claire Sutton’s potager (pictured above) that I love the [...]

If you’re looking for a garden that is as grand as it is wild, as fascinating historically as it is forward-looking, and as well-designed as it is packed with rare plants, then you couldn’t do much better than visit Nymans in West Sussex. I’ll declare my interest now: this is one of my favourite gardens [...]

Rachel from Wisteria and Cow Parsley recently sent me some images of her gorgeous vegetable patch at Tumbledown Farm. When I looked through them, I fell so in love with this dreamy plot that I had to get them online as soon as possible. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & Fern readers can get 10% off on flower, [...]

Trebah is a garden that leaves you wishing you were a child again so you could run through the forests of giant rhubarb and clamber through the ravine, pretending you were an explorer. Actually, when I visited few years ago, I found myself secretly doing this anyway. This tropical ravine garden in Cornwall will leave [...]

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 [...]