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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Summer Spectacular • Bloms Bulbs, sponsor of A Year in The English Garden, are renowned for their spring-flowering tulips, but this family firm also offers a wide range of summer favourites, including dahlias

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A Breath of FRESH AIR • High above the Kentish Weald, the windswept garden at Knowle Hill Farm is designed to blow away the cobwebs. While a dense shelterbelt permits brightly unseasonal planting, a collection of specialist snowdrops pierces the gloom

Plant of the Month • With its glossy leaves and charming flowers, Viburnum tinus enlivens a grey January garden

Things to Do • It’s out with the old and in with the new: recycle Christmas trees and plan the year ahead

The Future’s BRIGHT • Lit up by bulbs in earliest spring, the garden at York Gate in West Yorkshire is not set in aspic despite its classically Arts & Crafts good looks. Its gardeners are busy adapting its planting to embrace the future while honouring its past

Plant of the Month • The February garden’s first splash of sunshine comes from glorious golden winter aconites

Things to Do • Cut, prune and prepare to get your garden shipshape before the shift into spring

The Joys of SPRING • Layers of magnificent bulbs, evergreen structure and specimen flowering trees provide a dazzling spring display that Anna Vinton has sympathetically developed since her arrival at Stoke Albany House in Northamptonshire 45 years ago

Plant of the Month • Flowering currants are a front-garden staple in March, showcasing the fresh new joys of spring

Things to Do • The growing season is just beginning to get underway, so start off your plants and crops

A VISUAL FEAST • At Bucklers Farmhouse in Essex, Ann Bartleet has overcome challenging conditions to create an enchanting country garden, uniting form, colour and wildlife for a true sensory delight

Plant of the Month • Honesty is the best policy in April, the richly coloured flowers pairing well with vibrant bulbs

Things to Do • Warmer weather is here, so it’s time to improve your garden’s growing conditions

Big Sky Thinking • After leaving London, Marysa Norris revelled in the space around Church Cottage in Suffolk. Her professed love of disorderly planting has resulted in a garden that encompasses formal borders and a relaxed perennial meadow

Plant of the Month • For painterly appeal in May, opt for a Cedric Morris iris in beautifully muted watercolour tones

Things to Do • By now the garden is in full swing, so put extra care into burgeoning crops and blooms

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS • Rachel Hannyngton enjoys a two-way conversation with her beloved garden at Home Farmhouse in Norfolk, a place of connection and spirit

Things to Do • As summer hits its stride, keep sowing little and often to keep the show going

Plant of the Month • A billowing froth of pretty lilac catmint will add summery romance to your borders in June

Enchanted ISLE • Overlooked by a fairy-tale tower, the magical gardens of La Seigneurie on the tiny island of Sark have been developed by generations of a feudal family since Elizabethan times

Plant of the Month • Oregano brings hot, dry sunny spots to life in July with clouds of scent and pollinators

Things to Do • July is as hot and dry as it gets, so protect plants from extremes and tidy faded blooms

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