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  • 3 weeks ago | gardenista.com | Clare Coulson

    A transportive garden can owe as much to a magical setting as to the plantings. At the garden of brothers and award-winning garden designers Harry and David Rich, the surrounding landscape ramps up those feelings before a visitor even sets foot in the garden. Nestled deep in Welsh woodland, this is a fairytale cottage fully immersed in nature—including roving herds of sheep—where access is possible only by bridge over a stream, a tributary of the River Wye.

  • 4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Clare Coulson

    Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission - learn moreHow to create a country garden in the city, according to garden designer BUTTER WAKEFIELDBy CLARE COULSON FOR YOU MAGAZINE Published: 03:01 EDT, 10 May 2025 | Updated: 03:01 EDT, 10 May 2025 Butter Wakefield, 63, was always destined to be a garden designer.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Alexa Brazilian |Miranda Cooper |Clare Coulson |Clare Foster |Johanna Silver |Kendra Wilson

    We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think about — plants.

  • 1 month ago | ft.com | Clare Coulson

    “When you design a garden, you are building a vision and all the elements should tie together to tell that story,” says landscape...

  • 1 month ago | gardenista.com | Clare Coulson

    What garden designers put in their own gardens is perhaps more revealing than what they create for their clients, who generally have extensive land, and expansive budgets. In their own homes,  garden designers are often, like most of us, constrained by limited time and resources. But they have time to think, sometimes for many years, about any intervention—and time to experiment and innovate.