Naturalistic garden

Continuing her series on designers' gardens, this month Clare Foster visits the Dutch garden of Piet Oudolf, the hub of his experimentation with plants for more than 30 years

All around the world, cities have seen wildlife return to areas where tourists aren’t crowding them out this year. It’s a beautiful reminder that nature is a powerhouse: left untamed, the natural world will create its own sense of balance and beauty. Rather than fight these forces, a wonderful way to design your home garden design is to embrace what nature does best and let your landscaping run wild with a naturalistic feel.

Starting a new garden from scratch can be daunting, but it’s also a fantastic opportunity to create exactly what you want. The vision I had for my new garden (two […]

Beautiful and great for wildlife, a naturalistic planting design can look wonderful year round and suits many styles and sizes of backyard

In gardening, wild may be the word of the moment but it is a loaded term—because what is wild? Any element of interference, management, or design suggests

Perched far above Chatsworth Estate and surrounded by the wild Derbyshire uplands, Park Farm’s cottage garden is just a few years old and yet feels as though it has always been here, thanks to rustic stone paths and low-maintenance plantings that blend beautifully with the landscape

By early summer in some gardens you may struggle to keep your plants from becoming victims to dry soil and severe drought, especially if they are new plants or plants with lots of new growth. Find out what will thrive in the garden in drought conditions…