KEY:
t = top; b = bottom; tl = top left; tr = top right; bottom left = bl; bottom right = br; c=centre cl= centre left; cr = centre right
Photography by JASON INGRAM except for the images listed below.
All step-by-step images, plus: inside front cover; 10,11,12,13tl & br, 19 all images except tr, 36b, 37bl, 39b, 52, 69tl, 72, 79tr & bl, 85, 86, 87, 88tl, 94, 95tl & tr, 96, 100-101, 125r, 145r, 149b, 164,165, 166br, 170, 171, 172, 176t, 177, 179tl, 181.
7, 8 tl Brian Dunster; 2-3 GAP Photos/Jenny Lilly; 19 cr Marianne Majerus Garden Images; 39 GAP Photos/Lynn Keddie; 61 GAP Photos/Elke Borkowski; 93 tr Becky Clarke; 93 br Robert Wharton; 138-139 (Rosa ‘Madame Alfred Carrière) courtesy David Austin Roses, davidaustinroses.com; 103 private collection; Shutterstock: 15 br Menno Schaefer; 63t aon168; 64 GoodMood Photo; 76br CatherineL-Prod; 78 Cr3ativ3 Pixel; 91t yoshi0511; 91c sichkarenko.com; 91b torook; 92 Nicolette_Wollentin; 94b Elena Schweitzer; 97t Verena Matthew; 110-111: no.3 Lost Mountain Studio, no.4 Maxena, no. 5 SAMMYONE, no.6 Anna Gratys, no.7 Imladris, no.9 Starover Sibiriak; 114-115: no.2 Paul Nash, no.3 Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH, no.6 shihina, no.7 Ken Easter, no.8 alexpro9500. no.9 photoJS; 118-119: no.4 ksb, no.6 Anna Gratys, no.7 CatherineL-Prod, no.9 Stas Enso, no.10 babetka; 122-123: no.1 Oksana Shufrych, no.2 uladzimir zgurski, no.3 Kevinr4, no.4 tkemot, no.5 Nikolay Kurzenko, no.6 riekephotos; 130-131: no.1 Preeyaporn Suwannarat, no.2 pryzmat, no.3 mr_coffee, no.6 JSOBHATIS168, no.8 Philip Bird LRPS CPAGB; 134-135: no.1 Ruud Morijn Photographer, no.2 guentermanaus, no.3 Bastian Kienitz, no.4 Saruri, no.5 EQRoy, no.6 Alistair Scott, no.7 nishioka1987, no.8 guentermanaus, no.9 kukuruxa; 138-139: no.2 haraldmuc, no.3 Birute Vijeikiene, no.6 joloei, no.7 NokHoOkNoi, no.8 Anna Gratys, no.9 Varts; 142-143: no.1 Tony Baggett, no.5 JRJfin, no.6 jhjunker, no.7 EQRoy, no.8 Katarzyna Mazurowska; 146-147: no.5 mr_coffee, no.6 flowermedia, no.7 mr_coffee, no.9 Landscape Nature Photo, no.10 guentermanaus; 150-151: no.3 choi hyekyung, no.7 Peter Turner Photography, no.9 Yulia-Bogdanova, no.10 Manfred Ruckszio; 154-155: no.6 kay roxby; p166 bottom left Ronald Wilfred Jansen; 176 bottom sunsinger; 178 march.photo
2-3 Sarah Keyser for Living Landscapes, The City Twitchers Garden, RHS HCFS 2015; 6 Beautiful Borders Garden Design, New Horizons Garden RHS Hampton Court Flower Show (HCFS) 2016; 9,10,11 Carolyn Dunster; 12bl Dan Pearson Studio;14r Steve Dimmock, The Drought Garden, RHS HCFS 2016; 14l Dan Pearson Studio; 20b Dan Pearson Studio; 21 Dan Pearson Studio; 31 Peter Reader Landscapes; 32br Plant Belles, RHS HCFS 2016; 37 Alitex Garden, RHS HCFS 2016; 39 Teresa Davies, Steve Putnam and Samantha Hawkins; 42 Gary Price, Inner City Grace Garden, RHS HCFS 2016; 53 Jenny and Alex Maddock for Plant Belles RHS HCFS 2016; 55 Emma Griffin Gardens; 63 Peter Reader Landscapes; 65cl, Dan Pearson Studio; 65b Peter Reader Landscapes; 66tl Peter Reader Landscapes; 67b Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer, The Bowel Disease Garden, RHS HCFS 2016; 68 Caledonian Park, London N7; 69tl Great Dixter; 70-71 Carolyn Dunster & Noemi Mercurelli, Katie’s Garden – A Cut Flower Garden for Katie’s Lymphoedema Fund, RHS HCFS 2016 Winner of People’s Choice Award; 77t Dan Pearson Studio; 75bl Emma Griffin Gardens.