The New English Garden - in pictures

The hot borders at Packwood House, Warwickshire, designed by Mick Evans. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The grass garden at Bury Court in Hampshire, designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

James Alexander-Sinclair's terrace borders at Cottesbrooke Hall in Northamptonshire. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The Exotic Garden at Great Dixter, East Sussex, famously the site of the old rose garden, still stands as a pioneering exemplar of devil-may-care horticultural exuberance, with its large cannas, yuccas, gunneras and other operatic stars. Dixter is gardened at a connoisseurial level that is probably unmatched worldwide, the result of a continuous programme of aesthetic appraisal and alteration which was developed by Christopher Lloyd and head gardener Fergus Garrett, and is now continued by Fergus and his team [since Lloyd's death in 2006]. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The walled garden at Scampston Hall, Yorkshire, designed by Piet Oudolf. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The Manor House, Armscote in Warwickshire. Designer Dan Pearson gives a conventional lawn with an Arts and Crafts corner pavilion a modern appeal by simple fringe plantings of Alchemilla mollis and a distinctive wavy-topped edge. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The lower parterre at Trentham near Stoke-on-Trent in autumn, with Piet Oudolf's flanking plantings in the foreground and Tom Stuart-Smith's beyond. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The courtyard garden at Wildside Nursery, Devon, created by Keith Wiley. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

Mount St John, Yorkshire designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. Here the big views are complemented by big-scale plantings which bulk up in late summer. Halfway down the slope a lateral pool breaks up the space and invites the visitor in. Photograph: Andrew Lawson

The Cotswolds goes cosmic at Througham Court, a lovely stone farmhouse set on the edge of an enviably obscure Gloucestershire valley. Here, designer-owner Christine Facer - whose work could best be described as of the Charles Jencks School of Cosmic Gardening - has created a garden which is in part a homage to Jencks's original Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland. Pictured here is the Arts and Crafts Sunken Garden designed by Norman Jewson. Photograph: Andrew Lawson