Most people buying a home will tell you they made a rational, considered decision. They weighed up the number of bedrooms, the commute, the local schools. The truth is messier. Long before a buyer ...

Individually, these changes might seem small, but as more gardens disappear, the increase in hard-surfaced driveways can ...

If you’ve dreamed of growing a vegetable garden but your backyard is too shady, is paved or is simply too small, consider the front yard. Planned properly, it will not only provide a nice harvest but ...

Look at the front gardens in a typical suburban street and you're unlikely to be surprised by much. Tidy little lawns and hedges, a few prim flowers, perhaps a well-kept wooden fence. You probably ...

Walk down a city street and you see what would have been front gardens a decade or so ago have now been tarmacked over and ...