Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Widely regarded as the Vogue of the gardening press, Gardens Illustrated aims to inspire you with an eclectic and international editorial mix of remarkable places, plants and people. With superb photography, authoritative journalism and exceptional design, this award-winning magazine is a style bible for garden designers, garden lovers and enthusiasts alike.

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DIG IN • What's new, what's growing and what's going on this month

WHAT TO DO IN… MAY

3 FOR THE GARDEN… • HOSE TIDIES

May plants • Head gardener Andrea Brunsendorf takes pleasure in the drifts of luminous flowers, lacy umbellifers and fragrant woodlanders that grace the garden in late spring

KITTED OUT • Our pick of the best accessories for visiting shows and gardens, come rain or shine

SHOW TIME • Never mind Christmas; for Nigel Slater, the most wonderful time of the year is the third week of May, which means only one thing: the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Romance of the present • Drawing on the natural landscape as well as its industrial past, the new garden at Caisson House is a masterclass in modern country style

MILLIE SOUTER • Millie is currently a garden designer at Tom Stuart-Smith Studio and also head gardener of the Plant Library at the Serge Hill Project in Hertfordshire

EREMURUS • Despite their reputation for being hard to grow and infuriatingly easy to kill, foxtail lilies are spectacular and desirable plants for sunny borders or gravel gardens with well-drained soil

How to grow Eremurus

URBAN OASIS • Plants are an integral, all-encompassing part of this small, stacked live/work space in the city of Antwerp

Casual confidence • Award-winning designer Jo Thompson offers new container-planting inspiration with three ideas for flower combinations for late spring

Meadowlands • Peter Clay, co-director of Crocus.co.uk, has been developing his garden and meadows at Brockhampton Cottage, on a sloping site in the Welsh Borders, for more than two decades. Here, he explains his yearning for a magnificent landscape carpeted with orchids, and how he has made that dream come true

KAZUYUKI ISHIHARA • The Japanese garden designer on Chelsea Flower Show nerves, and how coming from a city synonymous with war shaped his love of peaceful nature

Winds of change • This intimate woodland-style garden, glorious in late spring, is as much the result of the forces of nature as its curator's guiding hand

CHELSEA 2024 PREVIEW

UP AND TRENDING • It's difficult to predict what the big trends will be at the Chelsea Flower Show each year, but we have trawled the garden designs and spoken to designers and growers to draw out the themes we think will take the spotlight at the 2024 show

SHOW GARDEN GUIDES • Discover the inspiration and thinking behind the designs of the top gardens at this year's show

IS CHELSEA SUSTAINABLE? • Events on the scale of the Chelsea Flower Show are bound to come at an environmental cost. So what is the RHS doing to make the show more sustainable?

BEHIND THE SCENES • The Chelsea Flower Show may be the ultimate garden show, but it takes a lot of dedicated people working hard to bring it to fruition. Here we meet some of them

WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF THE GREAT PAVILION? • Exhibiting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is every plant nursery's dream, but the face of the Great Pavilion has changed noticeably over recent years. We look into what is going on under the awnings of the big white tent

RELOCATION, RELOCATION, RELOCATION • Once the show is over, the gardens must live on. Annie Gatti talks to designers about the challenges of moving their showpieces to permanent homes

More than meets the eye...