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.

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Gardens Illustrated Magazine

DIG IN • What’s new, what’s growing and what’s going on this month

What’s on this month

3 FOR THE GARDEN… • BROADFORKS

Summer winners • For our special planting issue, nurserywoman Rosy Hardy has chosen ten summer stars, from an early pompom dahlia to an unusual pale-blue salvia

KITTED OUT • For keeping your cool while summer heats up

VALLEY VIBES • A disused dairy yard in Wiltshire provided the perfect setting for designer Sheila Jack’s own meadow-inspired garden

HITTING A BRICK WALL • Two decades ago, Nigel Slater covered his unsightly brick walls with ivy, but finding a plant to replace it isn’t as simple as you might think

PINCUSHION FLOWERS • Delightful, scabious-like pincushion blooms sway in a gentle breeze and bring a welcome airness to summer planting schemes

NATURAL HIGH • Writer and planting designer Tony Spencer, aka The New Perennialist, explains how he created his Canadian garden and exciting new alvar-inspired green roof with year-round interest in the wilds of Ontario

JONATHAN ZERR • German horticulturist Jonathan is working to transform Bottengoms in Essex into a nature-first artists’ retreat

ROOTED IN PLACE • This habitat-rich garden filled with native plants and its own billabong was designed by Phillip Johnson to borrow the surrounding landscape

BEST-KEPT SECRETS • Discover the scheme-making plants that professional designers love - the secret weapons that they repeatedly turn to for success

A fitting tribute • Plantsman Keith Wiley explains how creating the South- African-inspired garden he planned with his late wife, Ros, at Wildside in Devon gave him welcome purpose

CATRINA FENTON • The head of the Heritage Seed Library on why she jumped at the chance to help preserve the seed and stories of more than 800 historic veg varieties

GROWTH INDUSTRY • In their nursery and garden, Fine Molz and Till Hofmann expertly demonstrate the true beauty of ecological planting

Design • News, planting design insights and sourcebook

A MODERN MINDSET • Contemporary planting design has many different interpretations, but the underlying principles are the same. Welcome to the Modern Mixed Method

Outdoor showers • Luxurious stand-alone showers for freshening up outside in the garden

TOUGH LOVE • Grower-designer Tom Nielsen’s new nursery on an old 17th-century farmstead in Somerset is all about resilient plants

DOWNTOOLS • The best planting books, the crossword and final say

Crossword

Brown is the new black • As heatwaves become more common, Jack Wallington wonders whether we should take note from other countries and plan for a semi-dormant summer garden