Chrissie rucker

A restful palette was a priority for The White Company’s founder Chrissie Rucker in the design of the immaculate garden of her house in Buckinghamshire, which is filled with perennials and grasses in shades of white and green.

Our columnist Sophie Dahl reflects on her memories of sun-drenched summers spent outdoors and the enchanted gardens of English literature.

From rural cottage to grand estate, country gardens should be tailored to the house and landscape they occupy. Clare Foster talks to three garden designers about the elements that give a garden that all-important sense of place and we've included loads of inspiration to help you design your English country garden to perfection

On torrid days in Singapore, the mercury can rise to 40°C. This is when interior designer Elizabeth Hay, who relocated to the tropical city-state in 2013, dreams of home. She pictures the whitewashed kitchen of her thatched cottage, tucked into the quiet green fold of an isolated Devon valley. Lawns tumble down to a brook and blossom drifts across the orchard in spring – an idyllic vision of England that might have come from a Thirties guidebook

Keith Johnson and Glen Senk’s search for a retreat from Florida’s heat took them to a Grade II-listed house in south west England, which, after restoration and redecoration, is a refreshing amalgamation of creative American spirit and English country ideals

Tasked with decorating a nineteenth-century stone cottage in Pembrokeshire, John McCall made use of an unusually creative method to conceive its understated and eclectic look.

Elegant and restrained, a white colour palette in the garden is easy to achieve with plenty of evergreen plants and a careful selection of flowers. Tabi Jackson Gee advises on the process

A restful palette was a priority for The White Company’s founder Chrissie Rucker in the design of the immaculate garden of her house in Buckinghamshire, which is filled with perennials and grasses in shades of white and green.

Kate Middleton and Prince William pulled a very rare move today, being very, very affectionate at the Royal Charity Polo Cup 2022.

A restful palette was a priority for The White Company’s founder Chrissie Rucker in the design of the immaculate garden of her house in Buckinghamshire, which is filled with perennials and grasses in shades of white and green.