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 public figures we most admire in British horticulture

Ann-Marie’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 Knowing what to do when with grasses can be confusing, but it’s easy once you’ve established which are deciduous and which are evergreen

Checklist

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

New Life • Westbury Wildlife Park to reopen

White Stuff • Celebrate the snowdrop, with our pick of gifts and homeware featuring this delicate flower

Go Wild • Give garden wildlife a helping hand by offering a range of food and shelter

Confection PERFECTION • The deserving overall winner of 2019’s The Nation’s Favourite Garden competition, Coton Manor in Northamptonshire follows Susie Pasley-Tyler’s recipe for colour and texture to create a garden par excellence

Star INGREDIENTS • These carefully chosen blooms add colour and texture to the mix at Coton Manor

Healing SPACE • Horatio’s Garden at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury is a beautiful place of solace and respite where patients soak up the health benefits of nature, says head gardener Stephen Hackett

Blue Sky THINKING • Peter Stott has applied the full force of his creativity to Larch Cottage, his nursery and garden in an unexpectedly sunny corner of the Lake District, where an Italianate atmosphere meets innovative self-built hard landscaping, including the chapel where he married his wife Jo

BRIGHT BEAUTIES at Larch Cottage • A varied selection of perennials bring real vibrancy to the planting at this well-stocked nursery

Paradise REVISED • At Shropshire’s Wollerton Old Hall, John and Lesley Jenkins have completely reworked the garden of Lesley’s idyllic childhood to create an enchanting space of mature accomplishment

Green & Pleasant LAND • Five gardens on London’s delightful Kew Green, are opened for the National Garden Scheme each year by a group of neighbours, the low borders meaning individual gardens can be viewed almost as a whole

The Makings of a MASTERPIECE • Over 20 years, Kathy and Simon Brown have developed the garden of The Manor House in Bedfordshire with skill and creative flair, combining cultural reference points with a passion for China, all with an eye to the garden’s ultimate exhibition

Scent of Success • For reliable fragrance in the winter garden, look no further than these ten delectably aromatic plants chosen by Dunham Massey’s Emily Chandler

Enduring Appeal • With lovely spring blooms and edible autumn fruit, long-lived chaenomeles are true garden stalwarts. David Ford has amassed his National Collection to ensure that these reliable and easygoing shrubs can be enjoyed by future generations

Caring for Chaenomeles • David Ford shares his tips on looking after these undemanding and long-lived shrubs

A Head Start • It’s best to wait until later in spring to sow most seeds, but there are some that will benefit from an early start. If you’re itching to get going, try these

Seeds of Change • Beat the spring rush and choose from some of the exciting new flower and vegetable seeds to be introduced...