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The English Garden

Spring 2022
Magazine

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.

CONTRIBUTORS

Welcome

THE ENGLISH GARDEN

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

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

Sarah’s favourite gardens

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

Bunny’s Diary • This month, Bunny Guinness is planting asparagus, treating roses, and ageing stone balls

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

Green Machines

HAPPY PLACE • In the sheltered small garden of this London family home, award-winning garden designer Jane Brockbank has created an oasis of sociable spaces, overflowing with joyous planting

Saving GRACE • Mary Cox worked hard to turn the derelict space surrounding her thatched and timbered Worcestershire home into the colourful wildlife-friendly cottage garden she now calls her ‘saviour’

Cottage Garden FAVOURITES • A pretty combination of classic perennials, climbers and roses in uplifting colours

Mary’s advice for propagating your own plants

Her Real GARDEN • While lockdown was a time of professional uncertainty for designer Ann-Marie Powell, it also let her focus on her own neglected garden and rediscover a passion for planting that led to the creation of the ‘My Real Garden’ virtual community and book

FUTURE BRIGHT • The guiding principle applied by Bridget Allen to the garden at Lillesley Barn in Suffolk is to believe in tomorrow. And over 16 years, her willingness to experiment with its tricky soil has paid dividends

Flower POWER • High-performing plants fill Bridget Allen’s garden with blooms all summer long

Urban EDEN • When Declan Buckley took on the design of this private London garden, his brief was to maintain the connection with the city beyond, while creating privacy – and a haven for wildlife – within

Inner SANCTUM • Miles Raybould was tasked with creating a sense of space and seclusion in a compact central London garden that is overlooked on every side

Green & SERENE • Miles Raybould has used a calming green planting palette accented by flashes of white

Island Dreams • Tresco Abbey Garden’s curator Mike Nelhams suggests exotic summer bulbs from the collection that will thrive on the mainland if given the right conditions

Polite Company • In Norwich, Richard Hobbs hosts the National Collection of Muscari, a genus that includes hundreds of pretty and well-behaved plants, despite its two infamously boisterous exceptions

Muscari Magic • Richard Hobbs shares his tips for these easy-to-grow bulbs, whether they’re in borders or pots

Pot Luck • For Arthur Parkinson and his family, paving has posed no obstacle to the creation of an intensely colourful but low-maintenance container garden in the tiny front garden of their Nottingham home

Flying COLOURS • An eye-popping mix of annuals and dahlias contributes to this flamboyant front garden

Arthur Parkinson’s Container Recipes

Moving Mountains • Native to some of the world’s harshest high altitudes, diminutive alpines are tougher than they look. Wendy Bates of Rotherview Nursery in Sussex advises on replicating their growing conditions here in the UK

Alpine STARS • These alpines bear beautiful little flowers for many weeks...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 140 Publisher: Chelsea Magazine Edition: Spring 2022

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: March 23, 2022

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Home & Garden

Languages

English

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.

CONTRIBUTORS

Welcome

THE ENGLISH GARDEN

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

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

Sarah’s favourite gardens

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

Bunny’s Diary • This month, Bunny Guinness is planting asparagus, treating roses, and ageing stone balls

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

Green Machines

HAPPY PLACE • In the sheltered small garden of this London family home, award-winning garden designer Jane Brockbank has created an oasis of sociable spaces, overflowing with joyous planting

Saving GRACE • Mary Cox worked hard to turn the derelict space surrounding her thatched and timbered Worcestershire home into the colourful wildlife-friendly cottage garden she now calls her ‘saviour’

Cottage Garden FAVOURITES • A pretty combination of classic perennials, climbers and roses in uplifting colours

Mary’s advice for propagating your own plants

Her Real GARDEN • While lockdown was a time of professional uncertainty for designer Ann-Marie Powell, it also let her focus on her own neglected garden and rediscover a passion for planting that led to the creation of the ‘My Real Garden’ virtual community and book

FUTURE BRIGHT • The guiding principle applied by Bridget Allen to the garden at Lillesley Barn in Suffolk is to believe in tomorrow. And over 16 years, her willingness to experiment with its tricky soil has paid dividends

Flower POWER • High-performing plants fill Bridget Allen’s garden with blooms all summer long

Urban EDEN • When Declan Buckley took on the design of this private London garden, his brief was to maintain the connection with the city beyond, while creating privacy – and a haven for wildlife – within

Inner SANCTUM • Miles Raybould was tasked with creating a sense of space and seclusion in a compact central London garden that is overlooked on every side

Green & SERENE • Miles Raybould has used a calming green planting palette accented by flashes of white

Island Dreams • Tresco Abbey Garden’s curator Mike Nelhams suggests exotic summer bulbs from the collection that will thrive on the mainland if given the right conditions

Polite Company • In Norwich, Richard Hobbs hosts the National Collection of Muscari, a genus that includes hundreds of pretty and well-behaved plants, despite its two infamously boisterous exceptions

Muscari Magic • Richard Hobbs shares his tips for these easy-to-grow bulbs, whether they’re in borders or pots

Pot Luck • For Arthur Parkinson and his family, paving has posed no obstacle to the creation of an intensely colourful but low-maintenance container garden in the tiny front garden of their Nottingham home

Flying COLOURS • An eye-popping mix of annuals and dahlias contributes to this flamboyant front garden

Arthur Parkinson’s Container Recipes

Moving Mountains • Native to some of the world’s harshest high altitudes, diminutive alpines are tougher than they look. Wendy Bates of Rotherview Nursery in Sussex advises on replicating their growing conditions here in the UK

Alpine STARS • These alpines bear beautiful little flowers for many weeks...


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