Spring gardens

The beautiful magnolia and cherry trees in this London garden remain the centrepiece in an artful new design by Sheila Jack

Vibrant colour, intoxicating scent and a sense of joy abound in Mary Keen’s Gloucestershire garden, where a courtyard filled with lovingly cultivated flowers leads to a gloriously untamed meadow with naturalised bulbs and young plants

This former farm near Toledo in Spain is a testament to landscape designer Fernando Martos’ belief that a garden should work in perfect harmony with its surroundings

Alongside developing her hugely successful eponymous business, Sarah Raven still finds time for writing and teaching. But it is in the evolution of the gardens of Perch Hill, her family home in East Sussex, that her passion for horticulture is most clearly expressed

Blossom-covered boughs and spring bulbs provide welcome colour at this time of year in the Cotswold garden of Clare Pike, who runs flower business Rich Pickings with Kate Gordon Lennox

The garden of an Oxfordshire manor house has been reinvigorated over many years by the designer Arne Maynard, with bold, distinctive new elements set against the existing framework

Continuing his seasonal series, Dan Pearson takes a moment to appreciate the beauty of spring on his Somerset smallholding, before the growing season really takes off

After endless lockdown, a trip to lovely gardens as they bloom in early spring is just the tonic

At Tuinfleur in the Netherlands, plant collector Rika van Delden replaces thousands of bulbs every year and experiments with new varieties, ensuring all areas of the garden are full of interest