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The article offers information on two passions of artist John Morley which include snowdrops and painting, and also offers information on the garden at North Green.

The article discusses the new Elizabethean style of the Haddon Hall, and describes its features which includes presence of over 100 roses, gardens filled with steps and balustrades that lead to the house and the biggest challenge posed by the pruning of the well-trained roses.

The article offers information on a contemporary country garden built by Paul Mercer and Bianca Mercer in the village of Bressingham, Norfolk, Great Britain.

The article discusses the garden of Elsing Hall, Great Britain, and the experiences of two gardener named Patrick Lines and Han Yang Yap in developing the garden.

A review is offered of the private garden at Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, England.

A review is offered for the Wretham Lodge located at Church Lane East in Norfolk, England which feature kitchen garden and birds like guinea fowl.

The article focuses on the winter garden of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, England, comments from gardener, Richard Todd, and images of winter garden flowers.

A review is offered for the York Gate garden located in Leeds, England.

The article focuses on gardeners Catherine Penny and Andrew Penny who conserved Pax roses developed by clergyman Joseph Pemberton at the Dutton Hall rose garden located in Lancashire, England.

A review is offered for the Sledmere House garden in Yorkshire, England, along with gardening tips from gardener Andy Karavics which includes planting nasturtiums, making cold compost and using softwood to make raised beds.

The article describes the Ramster Hall and Garden near Chiddingfold in Surrey, Great Britain famous for azaleas and rhododendrons and owned by gardener Miranda Gunn with topics including challenges due to high winds, Miranda's tips for providing care to Rhododendrons and gardens suggested by her.

The article discusses the Bressingham Gardens in Norfolk, England which is a family garden owned by nursery grower, Adrian Bloom and his family.

The article features the gardens of Sonia and Giles Coode-Adams, former president of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), at Feeringbury, a 15th-century Essex manor house in England. Sonia shares that perennials are her thing while the trees are Giles', and that gardener Ellen Fairbanks has helped them four days a week for the past 12 years. The gardens are now home to herbaceous borders, wildflower areas and an arboretum of rare trees and shrubs, that come into their own in autumn.

The article discusses the garden action plans at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England for September 2013. It describes the various plants grown at the walled garden including dahlias, pumpkins and squashes, and apple. It also cites several available gardening jobs including hedge cutters and pickers for flowers, fruits, and vegetables.

The article focuses on designer plants suggested by garden designers including Amanda Patton, Andy Sturgeon and Thomas Hoblyn.

The article describes the garden created by Robin Green and his partner Ralph behind their Victorian house in Deal on the east coast of Kent, England. The seaside garden has three neatly divided areas which showcase recycled landscaping materials and plant varieties such as agapanthus, lilies, and cannas grown in pots, containers, and raised beds. The garden also features a paved Spanish courtyard, a seating area, a water feature, raised vegetable beds, and wall-trained fruit.

The article discusses how the gardening team are managing the flower borders, vegetable beds and other areas in the five-acre walled garden of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England in the midst of summer. The gardeners keep the lawns crisply cut and edged, water remaining salad crops, and net cabbage and other brassicas. They also harvest soft fruits, take off the faded blooms of the roses, pick flowers for indoor use, prune overgrown magnolias, and keep the temperature in glasshouses down.

The article features the five-acre walled garden at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England. It mentions that it won the Historic Houses Association (HHA)/Christie's Garden of the Year Award in 2008. The Wisteria Walk is presented with its sturdy oak pergola filling out with Wisteria sinensis, Wisteria floribunda and Wisteria brachybotrys. The peony border is described including the high maintenance it requires. Various works are discussed such as setting out young plants and staking the delphiniums.

A review is offered for the Tatton Park located in Cheshire, England.

A review is offered for Cambridge University Botanic Garden in Cambridgeshire, England.

The article discusses the winter gardening work at the five-acre walled garden Houghton Hall in north Norfolk in east England that is covered with a blanket of snow in late December. It details the practical day-to-day tasks of Houghton Hall's team of gardeners headed by Mhari Blanchfield, including planting out garlic, pruning roses and working in the potted sheds. The article also discusses how Blanchfield's team handles cutting and offers tips in garlic planting.

The article focuses on the walled garden of Houghton Hall in England owned by Lord Cholmondeley, and how the gardening team maintains and prepares it for the oncoming cold weather. It says that the garden is getting an overhaul under the supervision of head gardener Mhari Blanchfield to remove bindweed and clean the path for new planting such as Croscosmia "Lucifer." An interview with gardener Blanchfield who discusses his work, the gardens he visited, and his future is presented.

A review is offered for the Houghton Hall Gardens located in North Norfolk, England.

The article discusses how Lynda and Charles Tucker developed their garden at the 10-acre grounds of Hindringham Hall in Norfolk. The house was constructed in two phases under Henry VII and Henry VIII. The reason why the house still has its original Tudor features is said to be due to its 19th-century owners. The Tuckers decided to make the garden more accessible to the public, beginning with a few charity openings annually for the National Garden Scheme.

The article describes the five-acre walled garden of Norfolk's Houghton Hall in England. The annual herbs like parsley and dill are grown with the salad crops. The white rose called Iceberg is a 20th-century cluster-flowered variety flowers throughout the summer season. The Mediterranean Garden is one of the most secret areas of the walled garden that was built to memorialize Lord Cholmondeley's grandmother Sybil.

The article describes gardeners' work for the spring season in the walled garden at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England. The vegetable beds are weeded and forked over in preparation for planting. Potato varieties such as the red-skinned "Rooster" and "Anya" slender salad potatoes are "chitted" in trays placed in a cool light area. A mixture of wallflowers and tulips are planted in diamond shaped box-edged beds.

The article discusses the February and March gardening activities at the Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England which include maintaining the 19th-century glasshouses in shape, pruning the wisteria walk and sowing seeds for the vegetables. Topics discussed are season in the vegetable garden, meet the gardener, James Leigh-Wood and pruning time for fruit trees and climbers. The required temperature to keep the plants comfortable are provided.

The article focuses on the preparations being done at the walled garden at Norfolk's Houghton Hall. Garden workers wrap garden statues and seats with insulation to protect them from prolonged wet weather and snow and make Christmas wreaths as part of the winter preparations. A photograph of the gardening team with Houghton's owner Lord Cholmondeley is also presented which include Andrew Burton, Charlotte Kivlin, and David Drew.

The article features the 400-year-old Easton Wall Gardens in Lincolnshire, England and the restoration made by the present manor tenants, who worked from a set of photographs taken in 1901 for "Country Life" magazine. It describes the Aquilegia McKana Group, the Rosa Cottage Rose, and the Digitalis purpurea "Pam's Choice" that blend with calendula and other plants. It cites the restored glasshouses that grow tomatoes, peppers and chillies, and the Sweet Peak Week held every end of June.

The article focuses on the many tasks to be performed by the garden team at Houghton Hall's five acre walled garden during the months of October and November, 2011. The autumnal work in the garden includes major tree pruning, renovating of borders, taking up damaged lawns, relaying irrigation systems and repairing ponds. Regular maintenance work such as picking of fruit, sweeping of paths and weeding and mowing continue to be carried out by the garden team.

The article focuses on advises from Jekka McVicar on taking care of herbs. McVicar, who is known as the queen of herbs among gardeners, started growing hers in 1987 and has since won 62 gold medals from the Royal Horticulture Society and wrote several books on the subject. She has also started to open her garden and offer workshops on herb cultivation. The workshops offered is limited to 18 people per class and they are subjected to do practical exercises to gain more knowledge about herbs.

The article features Joy and Joff Martin and their cottage that was leased from The National Trust. Joy recalled that when they moved in, everything in the house can be seen from the boundary despite the existence of big cherries and smaller apple trees in the property. She added that coming from a farming family enabled her to plan and carry out her dream garden, in which she was helped by her neighbor former Head Gardener of Anglesey Abbey Richard Ayres. The author says Joy's garden is reminiscent of the theme from "The Secret Garden."

The article describes Ivy Croft, Sue and Roger Norman's garden and nursery in Herefordshire, England which specializes in snowdrops, ferns and alpines. Purchased in 1996, the Normans prioritized the creation of a garden leading them to sort out levels and build raised beds using simple materials. The soil is described to be an excellent loam with underlying silt and gravel which allows the couple to plant a wide variety of plants such as acer, betula and bulbinella. The purpose of the garden in the beginning and as of the present is described.

The article describes the design of a garden that complemented the Langton Organic Farm in Yorkshire, England. The farm is owned by couple Richard and Annabel Fife, while the garden was designed by Annabel. Formal and less formal spaces were created around an old farmhouse and outbuildings, combining free planting with the strong structure of the garden. The Langton garden runs on organic principles and is surrounded by fields and willows close to the River Swale.

The article reviews the architectural design of the Farmhouse garden located near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England which was designed by Marcus Benett.

The article features a private garden along the beach on Hayling Island off the Hampshire coast in England, designed by Daclan Buckley. The garden was built in 2005 around a modern residential structure designed by architect Richard Paxton. The garden is characterized by contemporary, easy-care planting and landscaping which would get its most use in the summer season.

The article describes the garden design of the Vann, a 16th-century farmhouse in Surrey, England. The garden layout was made by W. D. CarÕe in 1909 while Gertrude Jekyll designed and planted the water garden in 1912. Vann features woodland and water gardens with more formal areas of hedging and herbaceous planting. The house has an old garden, a herb garden, a vegetable garden, a new centenary garden, and a Jekyll water garden.

The article describes the design of the Boyton Court garden in Kent, England. The house is owned by Richard and Patricia Stileman. Pink, blue and purple are the major colors of the planting scheme. The garden features lavender beds on the left side and a pool, rill and partere on the right side. Some of flowering plants found in the garden are Allium hollandicum, Rosa gallica Versicolor and Rosa Zephirine Drouhin.

The article focuses on the 4.5 acres garden of the Yewbarrow House in Cumbria, England. The garden is home to hoteliers Jonathan and Margaret Denby. It is implied that the garden has a sculpture garden in which pieces are crafted from local limestone, a sunken garden, and uses stone terraces to make platforms for the wide array of exotic plants. Walls, borders and stone urns are strategically placed to emphasize the colorful variety of plants grown.

The article features the city garden in the terraced house of designer Louise del Balzo in London, England. It describes the private 8-meter by 12.75-meter back garden as a classically simple urban landscape with contemporary features that is a delight day and night. Included are a diagram and design guides with some tips for lighting, which demonstrate the owner's idea of a garden that looks interesting all-day, all-year round.

The article describes the Garden RHS Rosemoor in Devon, England which is designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and Robin Williams. Out of its area of 130 acres, 65 acres are gardens, with six of them classified as formal gardens. Lady Anne's Garden has rare plants while the formal gardens echo both contemporary and classic styles. The foliage garden includes slate stones, textured foliage and structural evergreens.

The article features the 18th century Horsleygate Hall in Derbyshire, England and its garden which used to have rhododendrons, wild cherry and sycamore. When Robert and Margaret Ford took over Horsleygate in 1989 they maintained the vegetable garden and soft fruit trees including redcurrants, blackcurrants and gooseberries. Other plants in the garden includes salad leaves, cavalo nero and sweetcorn as well as herbs, artichokes and onions.

The article describes the Bishop's House garden in Norwich, England. According to gardener Simon Gaches, it is a private garden for the bishop and his family. The structure is dictated by the ruins of previous buildings and large areas of grass. The box edges in the rose garden were added in Gaches' time and the intensive bedding was replaced with hybrid tea roses. There are also natural areas including the old pear tree garden. The kitchen garden is run organically on a three-bed rotation system with a range of fruit and vegetables.

This article focuses on the collection of sweet peas grown by collector Roger Parsons in his cottage garden in Sussex, England. Parsons has the most comprehensive collection of Lathyrus odoratus in Great Britain. Parsons collect sweet pea varieties from different countries. Around 3,000 plants are grown each year in his garden. Some of the collection are stored as seed in his seed bank.