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
Advolly’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
Checklist
Nature to Note • The wonder of wildlife in the garden and countryside this month
SHOPPING
FLIGHT OF FANTASY • Take off into the dreamlike world of Norfolk’s Houghton Hall where the redesigned Walled Garden’s 23 rooms are filled with classical water features, astonishing sculptures and vibrantly imaginative planting
Creating a Wisteria Walk
Pretty IN PINK • Sumptuous peonies put on a spectacular summer show in Houghton Hall’s Rose Garden
Heavenly ASCENT • Follow the curious and purgatorial Zig-zaggy up though the many layers of John Ruskin’s richly allegorical gardens at Brantwood, his Lakeland home, and find yourself immersed in the intentional paradise of its upper levels
Ruskin’s Thoughts on Gardens
HIDDEN LONDON • Tucked away behind high walls and heavy wooden doors is a new garden on the richly historic and formerly secretive site of London’s Charterhouse
PAST CONTINUOUS • Over 17 years, Brian Vowles and Nigel Daly poured time, love and talent into their restoration of Biddulph Old Hall, creating a garden among its ruins that reflects its multi-layered history and is a testament to their journey, ensuring a fascinating story lives on
TIME Upon TIME • There has been a Walled Garden at Dunninald Castle in Montrose since the 16th century, and generation after generation has added layer upon layer to this special space, rich in both soil and history
Ripe for a Revival • Author and garden historian Dr Toby Musgrave looks back at garden features that were once far more popular than they are today and makes a case for their return
Other Historical Garden Terms and Features
Indoor Paradise • Bring a touch of the tropics to your greenhouse or any indoor space, with a range of exotics selected by Kelly Dyer, West Dean’s glasshouse gardener
Winter Spice • Witch hazels are an essential ingredient in the winter garden thanks to their aromatic fragrance and colourful, spidery flowers. Clare Foggett discovers how these shrubs bewitched National Collection holder Fiona Edmond
Witch Doctor • Expert tips and solutions from Fiona Edmond on getting the best results from these lovely shrubs
Banish the Blues • Sweet-smelling and early-flowering, dainty Tazetta Group narcissi are a reminder that spring is on its way
Tazetta narcissi: Cultivars for deliciously scented spring blooms
HOW TO GROW
Small & Perfectly Formed • As snowdrop gardens across the UK draw thousands of visitors this month, Vanessa Berridge explores the lasting appeal of this little white flower
Getting started: Advice from the experts
SUPPLIERS
Where to see snowdrops
Taste the World • Bhupinder Sohanpal samples some of the exotic delights growing in the newly opened World Food Garden at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey
vegetables Six more exotic to try
Life Imitates Art • Amanda Hodges visits the former home of J.M.W. Turner in Twickenham, to explore a skilfully reinterpreted garden that stays remarkably...