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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This Month • Our guide to plants, people, gardens and events, tasks and shopping in February

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

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

Things to Do • The rapidly lightening days find Jane Moore pruning the wisteria and clematis, digging up bindweed and setting off winter flowers with a contrasting mulch

Beautiful & Useful • New plants, books, tools and creative designs, plus shopping inspiration

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House Signs • From the thousands of options available, Natasha Goodfellow selects six of the best house signs and numbers, whether you’re led by the style of your home or your personality

Rooted IN TIME • Set high above the River Avon, Hanham Court’s historic gardens are being gently renewed by owner Julia Boissevain. Keeping a careful eye on preserving their heritage, she’s introduced forward-looking planting to make this multilayered landscape rich, wild, and irresistibly inventive

Do Try This AT HOME • Inspiring visitors with techniques from water conservation to making comfrey tea, Ann Tulloch reimagines the historic spaces of Durham’s Crook Hall Gardens with organic flair and shows how simple, sustainable ideas can flourish in every garden

HAVING IT ALL • Goodnestone Park Gardens in Kent offer the perfect blend of heritage, horticulture, wildlife and colour for dazzling year-round beauty

A New Chapter • The historic Arts & Crafts garden at Rodmarton Manor in the Cotswolds was first tentatively, then boldly, reworked room by room by Sarah Biddulph, who was keen to honour the horticultural efforts of past generations while adding her own stamp

Dry SPELL • Sand and recycled concrete become the surprising canvas at West Dean in Sussex, where Tom Brown’s drought-resilient planting proves that sustainability and beauty aren’t mutually exclusive in a heritage garden and can be combined to magical effect

The Bigger Picture • Shape and form trump colour at the inimitable Denmans in West Sussex, where head gardener Ryan Bodsworth selects ten plants for textural interest

Early to Rise • Colour comes early thanks to the intriguing diversity of primroses. Val Bourne makes a case for letting these spring charmers seed and hybridise through your garden, providing abundant beauty as well as food for the season’s first pollinators

Winter Wonders • Many winter and early spring flowering plants produce delicious perfume to draw you outdoors even on the coldest day. Here are some of the best

Four Seasons UNDER GLASS • From spring sowings to winter harvests learn how to make the most of your greenhouse at any time of year, discover the prettiest plants to grow under glass and find a directory of trusted suppliers

Snow Queens • Celebrating female galanthophiles, Val Bourne offers reminiscences about the formidable, generous and sometimes eccentric women who left a lasting mark on the world of snowdrops

The White Stuff • Gardens around the UK will open on selected winter dates to showcase their snowdrop displays. Here are some of the best events to help you embrace your inner galanthophile

Lines of Life • Hedgelayer Paul Lamb keeps alive a centuries-old craft, shaping living boundaries that protect fields, foster...