Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Widely regarded as the Vogue of the gardening press, Gardens Illustrated aims to inspire you with an eclectic and international editorial mix of remarkable places, plants and people. With superb photography, authoritative journalism and exceptional design, this award-winning magazine is a style bible for garden designers, garden lovers and enthusiasts alike.

Editor’s letter

Contributors

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Garden Illustrated Magazine

Dig in • What’s happening, what’s in flower and what to buy this month

News

KITTED OUT • Planning and organising your garden

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SUMMER HOLIDAY • Time to take a break from making endless lists of garden jobs and take a summer tour of your garden, with notebook and pencil in hand, to discover what’s working well and what’s not, and what lessons you can learn for next year’s crops

TOM BREAM • Encouraged by his grandfather to follow a career in horticulture, Tom is now head gardener at a Berkshire estate

Slow rise • Designer James Alexander-Sinclair is happy to allow his new Oxfordshire garden to evolve slowly over time

24 KEY PLANTS

Natural beauty • In her own garden, designer Alison Jenkins has used a sophisticated palette of colourful planting that sits lightly in its Somerset setting

12 KEY PLANTS

Full of life • Head gardener Fergus Garrett always knew the gardens at Great Dixter were more biodiverse than many ecologists might think, but even he was surprised to find out how much wildlife they supported

SORBUS • These easygoing and hard-working trees offer several seasons of interest from fragrant flowers in spring to richly coloured autumn fruits, as well as beautiful foliage

PLANT PROFILE

Cultivation

Where to buy and see

Better by design • When Martin and Nicola Henderson lost a third of their garden to a new open-plan extension, they saw it as an opportunity to transform the space and bring order, light and colour

JAKE HOBSON • The founder of Japanese tool company Niwaki on the art of cloud pruning, the intersection of nature and artifice, and helping to make Britain’s gardens safer places

Enduring love • At Primrose Hall Nursery Alec White specialises in breeding rare and desirable intersectional peonies – plants that can last for 100 years

How to grow intersectional peonies

17 intersectional peonies

Nourishing the city • In a corner of north London, a group of committed food lovers have transformed a former garden centre into a diverse eco habitat with a wildf lower meadow, orchard and vegetable garden

Unsung Heroes • Not every influential gardener wins gold at Chelsea, many more are transforming urban spaces and lives through community garden projects, proving all it takes is a packet of seeds, plenty of imagination and a determination to succeed – no matter what

Lessons for us all • In their remarkable, experimental, Mediterranean garden Olivier and Clara Filippi have developed a drought-resilient planting style that is increasingly relevant to many gardeners

IN BRIEF

12 KEY JARDIN SEC PLANTS

BIRD’S EYE VIEW

News

Boundaries • Unless you own all you can see from your kitchen door, your garden will be defined by walls, fences or hedges, but how you choose to work with these can help transform the space

Folding tables • Make the most of summer days with a stylish new table

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, competition, crossword, back issues, reader offer

BOOK REVIEWS

Other books • From the histories of two favourite foods to feeding the soul through nature, there is plenty of food for thought this month.

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