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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Welcome

The English Garden

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

Carol’s favourite gardens

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

Things to Do • Keep up to date in the garden with our monthly guide to key gardening tasks from Troy Scott Smith, head gardener at Iford Manor

June checklist • Sow biennials for next year and enjoy peonies’ glorious blooms

Nature to Note • The wonder of wildlife in the garden and countryside this month

Pond Life • New habitats for great crested newts

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THE NEW WAY • Bodnant in North Wales features some of the most stunning landscaping of its era and paved the way for a new model of funding and visiting gardens

Forward PLANNING • If you want to enjoy a lavishly planted mature garden, get going on it while you’re young. Emma and Simon Keswick did just that at their Cotswold garden, Rockcliffe, and now they’re reaping the ample rewards as they luxuriate in their dream garden

Like Father, LIKE SON • There was never any question that David Austin Jnr’s Shropshire garden wouldn’t include roses, but the son of the famed rosarian has used them in ways that go far beyond the traditional

Exterior DESIGN • Colour is everything for interior designer Joanna Wood, who applies the same principles and colour palettes to the garden rooms at Fyfield Manor in the Cotswolds as she does to the rooms of the house itself

Treasured Pieces • Joanna Wood’s black book for garden accessories

The Happy PLACE • Built on the bones of an existing garden in Hampshire, Caroline Cazenove’s garden grew as she learned, becoming a classic English garden of breathtaking beauty that brings joy to all

Style & Grace • Rose-covered, exuberant and above all stylish, Manor House Farm in Norfolk ticks all the boxes for a romantic English country garden

Rosesat MANOR HOUSE FARM • In early summer, roses are the undisputed stars. Here are a few of Libby’s favourites

Leading Lights • Combining aesthetic attention to detail and the latest technology, this lighting company provides a complete design service and versatilility of products from fittings to switches

Aqua Vitae • A water feature, whether traditional or contemporary, can bring a garden to life with its sense of movement or wildlife-attracting properties

Call in the professionals • Manoj Malde advises on water feature installation

KNOCK ON WOOD • After deciding to extend their Cheshire home, one couple enlisted the help of oak-frame experts Oakwrights and ended up with the garden room they had always dreamed of

Queens of Summer • Right now, sumptuous roses are starting to take centre stage in our gardens and Marilyn Stevens of Roses UK suggests ten of the best varieties to grow

Level Headed • Their colourful, flat flowerheads are the perfect landing pads for the pollinators that adore them, making achillea a sensible choice for those keen to attract garden wildlife, as National Collection holder John Cullen explains to Louise Curley

Easy-care achilleas • Achilleas are easy to grow if they’re given the right conditions, advises John Cullen

Tiny Dancer • The slender, elegant blooms of Fuchsia magellanica are in a different class to the big, blowsy hybrids

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