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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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

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

Things to Do • Spring is here, and Jane Moore is protecting tender treasures from late frosts, mowing and edging the lawn and getting the last few woody plants in the ground

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

Green Dreams

NEW Beginnings • After 28 years at West Dean, it was time for Jim Buckland to start a garden of his own, and he views the blank canvas he took on with his partner Sarah Wain in the village of Boxwood, West Sussex, as a dynamic process, offering an ever-changing sense of renewal

More is LESS • By cramming in a multitude of plants at this East Lothian contemporary coastal cottage garden, designer Lynn Hill has created a surprisingly low-maintenance setting, where a day’s work is over before it’s started

The Greater GOOD • Talented garden designer Stacey Lambert has reworked her own Hertford garden, foot by foot, to create ever deeper planting beds and trial schemes for clients, but underpinning it all is her passion for pollinators and creating the best possible habitat for them

Pride of PLACE • Visitors to the gardens at Glenholme Herbs in Dorset, will discover fragrant herbs used ornamentally in beautiful pollinator-friendly planting displays that prove their worth beyond the culinary and the medicinal

Life FORCE • When designing Greenways in Suffolk, Sue Townsend was tasked with creating a natural feel, and she’s achieved this using flowing gravel packed with pollinator-friendly perennials and wildlife-enticing water features

DOUBLE TIME • The gardening partnership between Aidan Donnelly and his grandfather, Joe, has grown in line with their horticultural knowledge as they’ve developed their Ayrshire folly garden into a modern Arts & Crafts masterpiece

GRAND DESIGNS • Discover the incredible winning gardens and the talented people who designed them at this year’s prestigious Society of Garden + Landscape Designers’ Awards

Serve & Protect • To keep our gardens free from the ravages of pests and climate, a range of methods and devices can be called into service, from greenhouses and nematodes to simple ways of striking a more natural balance

Think Pink • Gorgeous abundant flowers in the garden’s most romantic shade as chosen by Anne Chambers, custodian of Kiftsgate Court Gardens in Gloucestershire

Model Army • The ranks of 25,000 auriculas at specialist nursery W&S Lockyer are notable for their striking good looks, fancy forms, breathtaking colours and collectability, making them a popular choice on the show bench and in the garden

PINNACLE OF SUCCESS • A lifelong love of plants inspired Stella Exley to change career and become a nurserywoman, setting up, with her husband Malcolm, Hare Spring Cottage Plants, now renowned as an established supplier to the country’s top designers

Perfect Partners • In the first part of a new series, we reveal perfect planting partners to combine with the season’s star plants, starting this month with a spring favourite – delicate Narcissus ‘Jetfire’

Old Masters •...