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 April

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

Celestina’s favourite gardens

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

Bunny’s Diary • This month, Bunny Guinness is pruning hedges, mulching and making a difference with paint

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

Easter Chic

Trooping the COLOUR • Pashley Manor Gardens in East Sussex host a dazzling tulip display that peaks from mid-April with star varieties marching through the colour-themed rooms of its 11 acres

Tulip Varieties at PASHLEY MANOR • The festival’s star performers are selected for shape, form, colour and height

Knowledge BASE • In the fertile farmland of Herefordshire, Stockton Bury, 40 years in the making, has been filled with choice plants and fascinating design touches by its expert owners, making it a place of pilgrimage for gardeners of all levels

Spring SPECIALISTS • A selection of choice shrubs brings structure and seasonal blooms to Stockton Bury

Practical advice from Tamsin

Let There BE LIGHT • The neglected gardens of Wemyss Castle on the coast of Fife revealed a big surprise when trees were thinned and the woodland canopy opened – a breathtaking carpet of dazzling spring flowers

Stars of SPRING • Gorgeous flowers in pastel shades illuminate the walled garden and woods at Wemyss

Charlotte’s advice on growing E. revolutum

EDITION SPECIAL • Editing is key to Tessa and Mike Crowe’s dramatic displays of tulips at The Oast in East Sussex, as they work with 4,000 bulbs and 30 varieties to create a spring masterpiece

Tessa’s Tulip Timeline

Keeping SECRETS • Hidden away on an Exmoor hillside and merging with its surrounding woodland, Greencombe is a garden of tantalising promise, its wooded paths leading to hidden areas and massed plantings of delicate erythroniums

Erythronium growing advice

Green in Every Sense • Monocultural lawns have been in the firing line recently as our interest in biodiverse,, sustainable gardens increases. We talk to leading garden designers about how they apply an environmentally friendly approach to using grass in their designs

LAWNS: A Spring Care Guide

Herald of Spring • Blossom is a sign of brighter times to come, and David Bouch, head gardener at the Cotehele and Antony estates, has suggestions to banish winter blues

Bold & Beautiful • Jane Gifford visits Caerhays Castle in Cornwall to marvel at the opulent blooms of the estate’s National Collection of magnolias

How to grow magnificent magnolias • Jaimie Parsons, head gardener and estate manager at Caerhays, shares his tips on growing and caring for magnolias to get the best from these splendid trees

On the Ball • Kathy Brown explains how to go about making Japanese kokedama using dainty spring bulbs and other early flowers

A New Leaf • A greenhouse gives you valuable extra growing space, while its warmth and shelter will offer you a chance to try something just a little bit different

GOOD RESOURCES

Thyme in Bloom • Spring blossom lights up the pathways, gardens and orchard at...