The gardens of Tom Stuart-Smith - in pictures

Tom Stuart-Smith is one of the most influential and admired garden designers working today. He has won eight gold medals for gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show, was responsible for creating both a new garden at Windsor Castle marking the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002, and for the reinvention of England’s largest formal garden at Trentham in Staffordshire. This garden, Broughton Grange in Oxfordshire, was the first large private garden he designed.
Photograph: Rob Whitworth

A sketch of Broughton Grange garden, Oxfordshire. Tom Stuart-Smith has described this garden, which he made in 2000, as "still one of the best things I have done". Photograph: Tom Stuart-Smith

Whitehall garden in Norfolk contrasts two enclosed garden spaces with a wild and natural garden between the house and the fields that stretch to the sea. Photograph: Jerry Harpur

Whitehall garden in Norfolk. For more images of this garden, visit Tom Stuart-Smith's website. Photograph: Jerry Harpur

Whitehall garden in Norfolk. The main construction materials used in the garden are corten steel, stone and timber. Photograph: Jerry Harpur

A sketch of a garden full of what Tom Stuart-Smith describes as "an outlandish carpet of gigantic ferns". What started as a 20m-long by 9m-wide building site surrounded by high brick walls is now a low-maintenance hideaway with a primitive feel. Read Tom Stuart-Smith's reflections on this garden in Guardian Weekend. Photograph: Tom Stuart-Smith