Garden meadow

Happy #NationalMeadowsDay 🌱 Here's one of our favourite meadows at @GreatDixterofficial. Designing a meadow can be a fulfilling if challenging thing. But meadows are proven to support huge biodiversity and be excellent for pollinators. Even if you don't want to create a meadow in its entirety, or don't have the space for one, you can still bring a little sense of meadow to your plot, whatever its size. © Richard Bloom

Mowing a path through a paddock of wildflowers allows you to immerse yourself in the natural planting

Within their smallholding on the Hampshire Downs, landscape architects Kim Wilkie and Pip Morrison have created an idyllic garden designed to be part of the wider picture, where wildlife, livestock and humans can exist harmoniously side by side in nature

Create a meadow you can frolic through.

Looking for beautiful plants and design ideas for your pollinator garden? Take a tour of this wild yet refined property for endless inspiration.

In line with the owners’ environmental vision, our Garden Designer of the Year Dan Pearson has created a sustainable and productive garden in tune with nature, which celebrates its spectacular location on the Devon coast.

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border

Tom Stuart-Smith

The latest trend is for wildflower garden ideas featuring hazy swathes of planting and a wash of pretty pastel colors