Dutch gardens

Our UK correspondent Kendra Wilson has a collector's eye for gardens. Crisscrossing the country with camera in hand, she visits English gardens both grand

In her own London garden, landscape designer Emily Erlam has constructed a series of elegant terraces, each with its own mood, which provide structure for Mediterranean plantings and natural canopies.

These are dark days indeed. All traces of life slowly fade from the landscape as the hours shorten and shadows lengthen. The autumnal dance now done, the trees lie brittle and bare to the sky. The last perennials splay and shiver like a ghost army defeated by the rain and wind. But with this kind of darkness, there is nothing to fear.

Recreate garden designer Piet Oudolf's planting schemes with 10 tips for selecting flowering perennials and grasses that will create year-round interest in your landscape.

Pollinators can find everything they need in this super low-maintenance landscape.

Perlehyacinter er en af de mest bedårende løgplanter. Se de dejlige fotos af forårsbebuderne – og lær dem lidt bedre at kende.

Recreate garden designer Piet Oudolf's planting schemes with 10 tips for selecting flowering perennials and grasses that will create year-round interest in your landscape.

Mass planting of grasses and complementary colour palettes provide a sense of both unity and definition in this Hampshire garden.

The Dutch landscape designer on his new book and an essential but often overlooked ingredient in gardening—chance

Garden designer and poet Sean Swallow has used contrasting forms and architectural plantings to connect his well considered garden to its Forest of Dean setting, creating beautiful vistas at every turn