An industrial-style glass and steel wall is all that separates the small patio garden and the living room of this Notting Hill home. In this city garden designed by Adolfo Harrison Gardens, the long roof terrace has been laid out so you can sit immersed within the planting whilst facing the extraordinary city views. In the hairstylist Sam McKnight's London garden, a path runs through proliferating borders of dahlias and other flowers - the perfect maximalist look for a small space.

Extract taken from 'Gardens of Marrakesh' by Angelica Gray, Photographs by Alessio Mei, Published by Frances Lincoln at £14.99 in paperback. Make like Anna Spiro and her Brisbane house and employ sweet potted plants for a burst of life. 'The shrub Tzbouchina generally needs greenhouse conditions in this country, but, as it's protected on all sides, it's flourishing,' owner Olwen says. In the garden of Henrietta Courtauld's 1850s London terraced house, yew balls surround the main bed, which is planted with vegetables, Melianthus major and Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'. To make the garden feel bigger and create a calm backdrop for the creative planting, Garden Club London designed the fences to be clad in western red cedar, while reclaimed timber was used for the seating. This also allows you to protect them easily over winter. If your wall is moderately tall the vines will quickly scale it and each year you will be rewarded with the most beautiful spring display. She kept the garden neutral - full of greens and stone - to maximise the space. - Extract taken from 'Gardens of Marrakesh' by Angelica Gray. TRIAL OFFER

Helen Fraser and Non Morris, founders of garden-design company, Fraser & Morris, haven't let space restrictions stop them from creating an abundantly green and wonderfully lush garden, complete with a beautiful fig tree. Symmetry will always be visually appealing, and the lines of this Notting Hill garden beautifully mirror the curved elements of the house. This quirky feature has become the focus and defining element of the new layout. A line of pleached trees planted in pots softens his urban rooftop view. Running water can also muffle intrusive ambient sound, making it a clever addition to an urban home. He constructed this sleek roof terrace to maximise the natural light within his interiors.

In the foreground is a bed of blue and mauve plants, including alliums and perovskia. You may have room for a romantic border that will make your city garden look more like a country garden. Bonus points if you frame the hideout with a beautiful arch. The tiny courtyard at the home of the interior designer Helen Green comprises simple but elegant touches: a trellis of roses, a feature stone water plinth and plants potted in a variety of vessels, from wooden crates to wicker baskets and pewter milk pails. Suzy Hoodless's low maintenance garden features Kettal's 'Riva' armchairs, designed by Jasper Morrison for outdoor use, on an AstroTurf lawn. Pot your flowers in buckets for a chic look.

If you don't have much space, plant upwards. Potted bananas interspersed with young Philodendron Bipinnatidum add hot tropical notes. At Paul and Caroline Weiland's west London townhouse is this charming garden by Butter Wakefield. Welcome to House & Garden. Curator and potter Joanna Bird has turned her garden into an exhibition space, where modern sculpted ceramics meet calming evergreens. Gravel, generous tubs, and a lovely white bench come together to create a welcoming entrance to the house. onefinestay's East 51st Townhouse owners has used atmospheric lanterns and delicate fairy lights to create a cosy dining area. The wall of foliage cocoons the deck area with the pots adding a contrasting note to the decking and greenery that creates the illusion of space and makes the garden appear rather grand. A bespoke barbeque is located a level down, near the kitchen, while the upper level features a basalt-clad fireplace and comfortable lounge seating. 'The owner of this garden loves the simple generosity and glowing fowers of the Plumbago family. They look clean and fresh nestled amongst green foliage and vines that climb the walls of the house. It doesn't matter if you have a balcony garden or a small patch of patio, make it a space to be proud of. This seating area in the courtyard garden of a Kent barn conversion was designed by Kate Gould. Seen from the other side, a kitchen garden has been created on the upper terrace.

The founder of JamJar flowers knows how to create a beautiful garden, even in a small space. The guest house was the conversion of a former garage behind the house, which means that friends who come to stay can be independent. Disguised behind a trellis is her workstation - apple crates overflow with knapweed, daisies and wild carrot and there are planters of orange, salvia and cow parsley. Furniture designer Matthew King lives on this one with his wife, and they've added a cosy seating area to the front of the boat. Beyond this vegetable patch is a communal garden that has been a labour of love for Henrietta who is one half of the gardening duo the Land Gardeners who run a thriving flower garden based at Wardington Manor in Oxfordshire. A small vegetable garden sits in front of the guest house at this elegant Georgian home in Oxfordshire. But having a garden that’s tight on space doesn’t mean you have to limit your ideas. Wooden decking and box hedges are an instant winner when it comes to smartening a small space. Among the small but thriving vegetable garden is room for a small shed which works as a studio space. Grasses are planted in front of the original wisteria-hung loggia at this house designed by William Smalley, while a stone table makes a great permanent dining space.

Pots are grouped on the deck of an admittedly rather large Kensington garden by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, however this corner shows an idea that can be translated to rather more humble spaces. According to garden designer Marcus Barnett, colour can be used to blur the boundary between inside and outside, creating a sense of space. Small garden? The outside of Cameron Kimber's house in New South Wales is covered in charming clapboard. Inticately patterned tiling decorates the interior of the alcove seating area.'. Print + Digital Only £1 a Month. In a London house designed by Retrouvius, an indoor-outdoor football pitch for the children uses artificial grass by Easigrass extending from the inside to the end of the garden. They are planted with a combination of white geraniums, cosmos and lobelia. This garden at her Brixton house has a romantic, countryside feel thanks to furniture gathered from various antiques markets. This Kensington property was given a modern interior refurbishment and the garden was designed to reflect this. Small gardens are the new normal, most of us are either renting a home, or have a smallish house that’s most likely got a smallish garden to boot. Consider a colour scheme. It is important to consider the size of the space when choosing your plants, says award-winning garden designer Marcus Barnett: 'Using light green, grey and silver foliage tend to make a space feel bigger while bolder, darker green foliage is best used in larger gardens as a foil for coloured planting.'. This city garden is party-ready. In a courtyard of this David-Chipperfield-designed house, a Japanese maple is underplanted with cloud-pruned Lonicera nitida ‘Maigrün’. A brilliant small garden design idea - the uber-pretty porch at this Dominican Republic hotel, painted in what the owner describes as 'faded bathing-suit colours', is furnished with a vintage macrame hammock and peacock chair. The buildings had an unusual formation in that they were each shaped around a courtyard garden in the centre. Add a chic café table and chairs and we couldn't imagine a lovelier spot for breakfast. The brief for this Regent's Park garden, designed by Kate Gould, was a year-round green space with a 'hint of Portofino'. In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. With its mix of clean lines and natural textures, the townhouse of interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch pays homage to its London setting, while serving as a reminder of her rural roots. Planting and slatted screens have been installed to act as a shelter from the wind, whilst a water feature disguises the hum of the traffic below. This roof garden in west London was designed by Adolfo Harrison Gardens in collaboration with interior designers Maddux Creative. When the dividing fence between the two gardens was removed, the effect was to create a central courtyard in roughly the shape of a keyhole. (Just remember to make drainage holes to ensure they don't drown.) In this small west London garden designed by Richard Miers Garden Design, a built-in bench is piled high with plump decorative cushions, and lit by lanterns at night, creating a pretty seating area.

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