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The Lakeland Collection • This tour in the Lake District takes in a contrasting range of gardens in dramatic landscapes, including a small plot among the fells, and the home of garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd
DIG IN • What's new, what's growing and what's going on this month
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DIARY: JULY
KITTED OUT • For creating the ultimate edible garden
July plants • High summer brings an explosion of colour to Tom's choices, as bright oranges contrast with rich purples and blues, cooled by fresh whites and pale lilacs in Gravetye's borders
Places to visit • Tom's recommendations for places to see seasonal plants at their best
THE CONSTANT GARDENER • As days get hotter, summer growth is at full pelt and borders are overflowing with an abundance that can leave gardeners with the welcome dilemma of having too much choice
GARDEN JOBS for July
JAMES TODMAN • As a self-employed topiarist, James is helping to raise the craft of clipping plants into an art form
CLOSE AND PERSONAL • In a garden that was once only about looking out, James Alexander-Sinclair has brought colour and personality close to the house through abundant planting
The heat is on • Cottesbrooke's head gardener offers three ideas for high-summer containers, turning up the heat with hot colours then cooling things down with a soft meadow combination
Levelling up • Tom Massey has contrasted modernist hard landscaping with shaggy and shimmering grasses in this small suburban garden in Twickenham
ALCEA • As one of the quintessential cottage-garden plants, towering hollyhocks are a firm favourite with many gardeners, and offering such a wide range of colours it's not hard to see why
How to grow Alcea
VANESSA EASLEA • The former investment banker and current chair of the Working For Gardeners Association on her own change of career and how Covid has led to a national reassessment of our working lives
JUNGLE GIANTS • Jewel florals and towering plants thrive in the moisture-rich climate of a suburban Surrey valley garden created by plant adventurer Jack Salway
The secret garden • Tom and Jenny Williams used reclaimed landscaping materials to give their new garden authenticity and a sense of history
Growing together • Visiting Abi and Tom's nursery is as engaging as hanging out in the garden with a pair of plant enthusiasts eager to share their knowledge and love of horticulture
Living the hive life • In his Hampshire workshop, Matt Somerville crafts bee hives that mimic the way bees live naturally in the wild
Middle ground • For this garden in central Spain, Fernando Martos has used planting that is absolutely of its place, with year-round good looks, and a reduced need for water – essential for this harsh climate
Nature reserve • In his new book, Meadow, writer Iain Parkinson shares the reflections of notable experts, each with their own area of specialism, in an exploration of how the UK's classic hay meadows have shaped our cultural heritage. We hear from three of those voices whose passions include the virtues of leaving grass verges untouched, the symbiotic relationship and micro-dramas that play out between fields and insects, and the lives of the crofters who work on the grassy plains of Scotland's magical machair
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