Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Just add water

IN BRIEF

What Water meadow garden. Where Buckinghamshire. Size 13m x 36m. Soil Heavy clay. Climate Temperate. Hardiness zone USDA 8.

The idea is to walk through the garden and not really know where one pond ends and another begins

Many of us revamped our gardens during the lockdowns of the Covid pandemic, but few of us can claim to have embarked on projects of quite the scale achieved by André Schott. In just three years, he has transformed the garden behind his semi-detached suburban home into a watery landscape that looks as if

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