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Greater than the sum of its parts

Creating a garden combines a wealth of specialised skills, many of which must be provided by trusted third-party professionals. How can garden and landscape designers, especially the newly qualified...

Make it a green way

How to ensure planting and permeable surfaces lead the way in front gardens People often lament the loss of traditional front gardens that once distinguished suburban streets; walk around most...


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Breaking new ground

Sensitive design and rigorous groundwork has helped breathe new life into the Grade II-listed Grosvenor Square Grosvenor Square in Mayfair reopened in July this year following an ambitious £25...

Beyond horticultural borders

Traditional practices of regenerative land management have been regaining traction in agriculture but what lessons do they hold for garden and landscape designers? Zoe Claymore went along to find out...

Sublime surburbia

Created in the 1970s, the Ruth Bancroft Garden in California was ahead of its time in demonstrating the aesthetic possibilities of low-water planting As designers in Britain contemplate the extent...


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An opportunity for individualism

Hannah Gardner considers how using a biodiverse palette of plants presents designers with the means to create gardens and landscapes that are not only sustainable but are genuinely individual,...

Ways of thinking and seeing

John Wyer FSGLD explores how the different ways that neurodiverse people experience the world can be both a strength and, at times, a challenge when working in garden and landscape design A few...

Making spaces for playtime

Whether they are whole gardens or smaller spaces within them, the great outdoors should be a place where children can let their imaginations run wild When, as part of the research for the RHS...