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It’s the height of summer and gardens are cranking up a gear: borders everywhere are billowing and overflowing with colour. This issue showcases a in Hampshire, head gardener Mat Reese has its wildly romantic look under control and its seemingly unrestrained appearance is a careful, and highly skilful, orchestration. Roses and cottage garden favourites spill over the paths at in Lincolnshire, meanwhile, but at in Cheshire, pathways are neatly marked with orderly lavender and smartly aligned rows of potted olives. In what is perhaps the most northerly garden has ever featured, on Orkney’s Mainland, plants have no choice but to huddle together in the shelter of the surrounding walls, or risk being blown clean away in the fierce salt wind. And in the more softly forgiving coastal climate of Devon, our ‘design guide’ garden brings the style of the riviera to the River Dart.
