The English Garden

Enjoy over 60 beautiful gardens a year with The English Garden. Every issue features country, city, cottage and coastal gardens, with advice on how to recreate them. Be inspired by articles written by the country's top garden designers and discover the best plant varieties for your garden, chosen by expert nurserymen and plantspeople.

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Welcome

The English Garden

People to Meet • Introducing the gardeners and growers we most admire in British horticulture

Jo’s favourite gardens

Out & About • Unmissable events, news and the very best gardens to visit this month

Things to Do • Keep up to date in the garden with our monthly guide to key gardening tasks

Checklist

Nature to Note • The wonder of wildlife in the garden and countryside this month

Pick & collect • Gather your autumn crops with this selection of essential gear to make harvesting a pleasure

Summer Souvenirs • Collect seeds, press flowers, turn crops into preserves and commit memories to paper

A DREAM COME TRUE • Christina Shand has developed her Pembrokeshire garden, Dyffryn Fernant, piece by piece, into a magical dreamscape, transforming boggy ground with eclectic planting

Dyffryn Fernant’s LATE COLOUR • Stalwarts of the late-summer show fill this Pembrokeshire garden with September flowers

OUT OF AFRICA • Despite the extreme weather conditions of Highland Scotland, the Gulf Stream has allowed Sue Pomeroy and Will Soos to indulge their love of exotic specimens from South Africa and create an almost subtropical garden at 2 Durnamuck

North MEETS SOUTH • A mix of tough perennials and southern hemisphere beauties delight at Durnamuck

A HOME from home • Sue and Will’s tips for success with South African plants

THE OUTDOOR LIBRARY • The garden Tim Carter runs alongside his Essex nursery, Long House Plants, is both trial bed and an index of his collections, from delicate irises and sparkling grasses to autumn classic asters, showcasing colour, light and movement

THE WILD WAY • At By the Crossways in Suffolk, gardener Brian Skilton has let nature lead the way, resulting in a beautifully informal space that is filled with quirks, surprises and artistic touches and is teeming with wildlife

REAPING THE REWARDS • At Salle Walled Garden in Norfolk, head gardener Tom Barwick combines traditional kitchen gardening with the best modern vegetable cultivars to ensure a productive garden that supplies an abundant home-grown harvest

Crop BONANZA • Kitchen garden growing advice from Tom Barwick

SEASON SAVERS • Autumn is when garden buildings come into their own, whether you want a shed for storing tools, a greenhouse for overwintering plants or a cosy conservatory to relax in

GOOD SOURCES

Scarlet Fever • Mark Lane visits Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire to admire Lawrence Johnston’s well-known garden of rooms, and its ever-popular, much emulated red border

Hidcote’s KEY PLANTS • Johnston broke new ground by mixing shrubs with perennials at a time when it was unheard of

Recreating a RED BORDER • Hidcote’s borders are grand in scale, but these plants are suitable for smaller gardens

Keep it Coming • Garden consultant Michael Walker, former head of gardens at Trentham, chooses plants to ensure colourful foliage and flowers as the season turns

Saturation Point • Planted in waves of ombréd colour, brilliant dahlias radiate their eye-popping hues throughout the picking fields at Rachel Siegfried’s Green & Gorgeous flower farm in Oxfordshire

Dahlias for cutting • Rachel shares tips on growing healthy dahlias for robust cut blooms over the longest period

September at Babington • As the season cools...