Hazel White is the author of a series of how-to books on garden design, including "Small Patios: Simple Projects, Contemporary Designs" (Chronicle Books), released this month.

This round-up of garden ideas will help inspire you to create a wonderful retreat in your backyard. Garden ideas can cover everything from quick improvements, such as new containers packed with blooms ...

Raised bed gardens like these – rendered and painted white – are incredibly space-enhancing and practical in a small backyard. They can even encompass seating into their design. Use them to ...

The first step in designing your vegetable garden ideas is to choose the vegetables that you want to grow. This will guide you in your design and the style of your vegetable garden.

Don’t worry, there are heaps of easy and affordable landscaping design ideas that every home gardener can use to create a beautiful outdoor space that’s perfect for entertaining. Whether it ...

The gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show are rarely short of spectacular, but, if you're a small garden owner, you may well look at them and wonder how you could possibly recreate any of the designs ...

In small gardens everything is seen at once, so too much variety is overwhelming. When you find a plant you like, plant more than one or two — use 6, or 8, or even 10.

Visit the Lifestyle Garden Design Show from February 21 to the end of May, 8am to 5pm, daily. Lifestyle Home Garden Centre, corner Beyers Naudé Drive and Ysterhout Avenue, Randpark Ridge, Randburg.

To find out how, we spoke to garden designer Kate Gould, who is previously showed her "Out of the Shadows" Sanctuary Garden at Chelsea Flower Show last year. “I work a lot in central London, so I'm ...