Gardens
Be inspired by the finest gardens in the country and whether you have a window box or sprawling acres our expert advice on where to find and how to grow the best garden plants will be invaluable.
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Five best things to see in the Great Pavilion at the Chelsea Flower ShowThe show gardens often grab the headlines, but the Great Pavilion at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is always full of wonders. Country Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff picks out five of her favourite things from inside the marquee at the world's greatest flower show.
By Tiffany Daneff Published
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The joy of English stoneSponsored by Artorius Faber
When the interior designer Isabella Worsley conceived Country Life's ‘outdoor drawing room’ at this week’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, she worked with English stone specialist Artorius Faber to lend the space a timeless feel
By Country Life Published
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See all the medallists from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025The RHS's expert judges have spoken — these are all the winners from this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Photographs by Andrew Sydenham for Country Life.
By Toby Keel Published
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'It's perfect': The lush and charming RHS Garden of the Year at Chelsea Flower Show 2025Kazuyuki Ishihara's 'Cha No Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden' has won the coveted RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year, the top award at the Chelsea Flower Show. And it's a worthy winner.
By Toby Keel Published
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Monty Don's dog, The King's new rose and the 'perfect' garden: What not to miss at the Chelsea Flower Show 2025Country Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff shares her favourite flowers, gardens, clever ideas and nicest surprises from the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show.
By Toby Keel Published
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: Welcome to Country Life's 'Outdoor Drawing Room'The 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens today and with it Country Life's first stand in a quarter of a century.
By Rosie Paterson Published
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Hampnett House: A Gloucestershire garden where an empty, squelchy lawn has been replaced by 'gorgeous flowery generosity'What to do if you inherit a garden that isn’t your style? Tiffany Daneff visits the garden at Hampnett House, Gloucestershire — home of Mr Sanjeev Shah and Ms Mansi Amin — and finds a space that has undergone a major transformation, from high-concept minimalism to flower-filled paradise. Photographs by Britt Willoughby Dyer.
By Tiffany Daneff Published
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'Nowadays, you can barely throw a heavy brick without it hitting a garden designer’: The renaissance of the country gardenTiffany Daneff looks at how the English country house garden has been rescued from its thorny slumbers over the last 50 years.
By Tiffany Daneff Published
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Four stands not to miss at the Chelsea Flower ShowSponsored by Club Matters, Heritage Handmade Garden Collections, Rupert Till and Gladwell & Patterson
From wire sculptures to water features, oil paintings to tableware, take inspiration from the exhibitors at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show and liven up your home and garden, just in time for a–hopefully–glorious summer.
By Country Life Published
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Country Life May 14, 2025Country Life 14 May 2025 celebrates summer gardens, previews the Chelsea Flower Show and delves in to the classic prawn cocktail.
By Country Life Published
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10 outstanding British gardens from the Country Life ArchiveWith Chelsea Flower Show is on the horizon, we've mined the 128-year-old Country Life Archives for 10 inspiring gardens from across our Isles.
By Melanie Bryan Published
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A new rose named after The Princess of Wales highlights our near-universal obsession with the flowerNo flower is more entwined with myth, religion, politics and the human form than the humble rose.
By Amy de la Haye Last updated
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: The essential guide for first timersThe RHS has gone to great lengths to make the Chelsea Flower Show as fun and accessible for people of all gardening abilities. If you're planning to visit for the first time, here's everything you need to know.
By Tabi Jackson Gee Published
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Behind the secret garden door at 10, Downing StreetBut don't expect to meet Larry the cat, or like him, for that matter.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: The first garden designed by a dogMonty Don and his dog, Ned, have collaborated on a show garden at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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Testing times: Inside the RHS's Trials Garden at RHS WisleyNothing is so useful to the gardener as the plant trials that are quietly run by the RHS and judged by a specialist panel that publishes free reports available to all, suggests Charles Quest-Ritson.
By Charles Quest-Ritson Published
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Alan Titchmarsh: 'It’s all too easy to become swamped by the ‘to-do’ list, but give yourself a little time to savour the moment'Easter is a turning point in the calendar, says Alan Titchmarsh, a 'clarion call' to 'get out there and sow and plant'.
By Alan Titchmarsh Published
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Six of the best Clematis montanas that every garden needsClematis montana is easy to grow and look after, and is considered by some to be 'the most graceful and floriferous of all'.
By Charles Quest-Ritson Published
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Alan Titchmarsh: A foolproof guide to growing wisteriaIf you've been enviously eyeing the extraordinary wisteria on display across Britain and wondering how you can grow your own, help is at hand. Alan Titchmarsh shares his advice for growing this most glorious of horticultural spectacles.
By Alan Titchmarsh Last updated
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The man who trekked Bhutan, Mongolia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand to bring the world's greatest magnolias back to KentMagnolias don't get any more magnificent than the examples in the garden at White House Farm in Kent, home of Maurice Foster. Many of them were collected as seed in the wild — and they are only one aspect of his enthralling garden.
By Charles Quest-Ritson Published
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The 'breathtakingly magnificent' English country gardens laid out on the Amalfi Coast, and the story of how they got thereKirsty Fergusson follows the Grand Tour to Campania in Italy, where the English combined their knowledge and love of plants with the rugged landscape to create gardens of extraordinary beauty.
By Kirsty Fergusson Published


