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 to do this month

3 FOR THE GARDEN… DUNGAREES

June plants • A glorious Scotch rose, an impressive climber and a delicately scented evening primrose are among the early summer highlights for designer and plantsman Dan Pearson

Dan Pearson at Hillside • Join our special reader day to enjoy rare access to the celebrated designer’s own personal garden in Somerset

KITTED OUT • All you need for relaxing in the garden on long summer evenings

ROOM FOR MORE VIEW • For this Suffolk garden, designer Colm Joseph has created spaces that link the geometry of the new-build house to the surrounding vistas of fields and trees beyond

NOT SITTING COMFORTABLY • Why worry about not finding time to sit and smell the roses, asks Nigel Slater, if you get more pleasure from deadheading them?

HARDY SALVIAS • These popular, high-impact summer flowers come in a wide range of forms and colours and are designer favourites as well as magnets for bees and butterflies

How to grow hardy salvias

ANNA McLOUGHLIN • Anna, a landscaper with Landform Consultants, loves to feel immersed in the abundance of colourful blooms of cottage-garden style plantings

MEETING OF MINDS • Landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith has worked closely with architect Ptolemy Dean to create a garden that unifies a 15th-century house and barn

8 of Tom's stand-out plants

Out of the blue • From her Derbyshire home, artist Sophie Cook brings her trained horticultural eye to the Victorian art of cyanotype photography

MODERN TWIST • The traditional English country garden gets a contemporary update at this renovated cottage in the Cotswolds

SHEILA DAS • The new head of gardens and parks at the National Trust on the wonders of soil, the generosity of the gardening community and why cabbages will always blow her mind

Beautiful chaos • In his experimental garden in south Essex, John Little is prioritising habitat over planting, without compromising on aesthetics

Out of this world • With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy

Design • News, garden design solutions and sourcebook

IMAGINATIVE WAYS WITH WATER • Designer Charlotte Harris suggests smart, interesting ways to introduce water and use it to completely transform a garden

CASE STUDIES • Ornamental reflecting pools

Pizza ovens • Sleek ovens for your next outdoor pizza night, powered by wood, gas and electricity

Bombproof plants • Discover the indestructible varieties that designers, head gardeners and flower growers rely on: the top easy-to-grow, long-lived, pest- and disease-free performers for your garden

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, Q&A, the crossword and the big idea

CULTURE FLASH • This fascinating dive into the cultural significance of gardens will feed your mind, spark your imagination and leave you hungry for more, says Lia Leendertz

Recommended reads this month

'It is not all doom and gloom for the human race' • The landscape designer and TV presenter Mark Lane on how science fiction is fast becoming gardening fact

Crossword

SO MUCH MORE THAN MUD...