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Gardens Illustrated Magazine

May 01 2022
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.

Welcome

Contributors

CONTRIBUTING CONTRIBUTING EDITORS EDITORS

MAGAZINE MAGAZINE CONTACTS CONTACTS

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

News

DIARY: MAY

Highlights of the Chelsea Fringe • The Chelsea Flower Show’s younger sibling continues to grow in strength with a series of alternative garden-themed events held internationally – including art installations, poetry readings and meditation sessions – that delight and intrigue in equal measure

KITTED OUT • For the garden party season

May plants • From understated alpines to the frothy blooms of lilac and azaleas, Tom’s selection reflects the huge range of late-spring plants available to us. Angelica is the icing on the cake.

Places to visit • Tom’s recommendations for places to see seasonal plants at their best

THE CONSTANT GARDENER • As the earth warms and frosts are fewer, Benjamin Pope throws off the woollens and brings out young plants from under glass, ready to brighten beds, borders and containers

GARDEN JOBS for May

Natural development • Over a period of 20 years, designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd has been developing the gardens of this Berkshire home

TAYSHAN HAYDEN-SMITH • Garden activist Tayshan is the driving force behind one of the legacy gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Waste not, want not • Informed by the ethos of permaculture, an edible forest garden sits easily in the Cornish landscape, despite a maverick planting palette

IN BRIEF

8 key plants and how they work in an eco-garden

All things great and small • From the towering and the statuesque to the miniature and the understated, Jenny Barnes creates three displays to suit a variety of settings

Plants

Plants

Plant suppliers

Plants

Pure and simple • Designer Sheila Jack’s sparing use of colour in her own city garden transforms a partially shaded space into a luminous oasis of calm, just when she needs it at the end of a busy day

Choosing plants for a small, white garden

PLANT PROFILE

NEPETA • A classic, romantic, cottage-garden favourite, catmint is surprisingly robust, and possesses an essential quality for our times – drought-tolerance

How to grow Nepeta

MAKING A STATEMENT • In this small London garden, innovative materials and sympathetic planting combine to striking effect

IN BRIEF

MATERIALS

JULIET SARGEANT • The award-winning garden designer on helping to connect children with nature, finding her passion and how her medical training helps her clients to feel comfortable in their gardens

Old-style charms • At Binny Plants in Scotland, nurseryman Billy Carruthers specialises in peonies with a range that combines the best of modern hybrids with tried-and-trusted old cultivars

IN BRIEF

Growing peonies • Billy has three main pieces of advice for growing healthy peonies

CHELSEA 2022 PREVIEW

The Mind Garden • We talk to the designers behind some of this year’s Main Avenue and Sanctuary gardens about what has influenced and inspired their choices

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

New Blue Peter Garden – Discover Soil

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

Brewin Dolphin Garden

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

A Rewilding Britain Landscape

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

The RNLI...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 140 Publisher: Our Media Limited Edition: May 01 2022

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: May 3, 2022

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Home & Garden

Languages

English

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.

Welcome

Contributors

CONTRIBUTING CONTRIBUTING EDITORS EDITORS

MAGAZINE MAGAZINE CONTACTS CONTACTS

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

News

DIARY: MAY

Highlights of the Chelsea Fringe • The Chelsea Flower Show’s younger sibling continues to grow in strength with a series of alternative garden-themed events held internationally – including art installations, poetry readings and meditation sessions – that delight and intrigue in equal measure

KITTED OUT • For the garden party season

May plants • From understated alpines to the frothy blooms of lilac and azaleas, Tom’s selection reflects the huge range of late-spring plants available to us. Angelica is the icing on the cake.

Places to visit • Tom’s recommendations for places to see seasonal plants at their best

THE CONSTANT GARDENER • As the earth warms and frosts are fewer, Benjamin Pope throws off the woollens and brings out young plants from under glass, ready to brighten beds, borders and containers

GARDEN JOBS for May

Natural development • Over a period of 20 years, designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd has been developing the gardens of this Berkshire home

TAYSHAN HAYDEN-SMITH • Garden activist Tayshan is the driving force behind one of the legacy gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Waste not, want not • Informed by the ethos of permaculture, an edible forest garden sits easily in the Cornish landscape, despite a maverick planting palette

IN BRIEF

8 key plants and how they work in an eco-garden

All things great and small • From the towering and the statuesque to the miniature and the understated, Jenny Barnes creates three displays to suit a variety of settings

Plants

Plants

Plant suppliers

Plants

Pure and simple • Designer Sheila Jack’s sparing use of colour in her own city garden transforms a partially shaded space into a luminous oasis of calm, just when she needs it at the end of a busy day

Choosing plants for a small, white garden

PLANT PROFILE

NEPETA • A classic, romantic, cottage-garden favourite, catmint is surprisingly robust, and possesses an essential quality for our times – drought-tolerance

How to grow Nepeta

MAKING A STATEMENT • In this small London garden, innovative materials and sympathetic planting combine to striking effect

IN BRIEF

MATERIALS

JULIET SARGEANT • The award-winning garden designer on helping to connect children with nature, finding her passion and how her medical training helps her clients to feel comfortable in their gardens

Old-style charms • At Binny Plants in Scotland, nurseryman Billy Carruthers specialises in peonies with a range that combines the best of modern hybrids with tried-and-trusted old cultivars

IN BRIEF

Growing peonies • Billy has three main pieces of advice for growing healthy peonies

CHELSEA 2022 PREVIEW

The Mind Garden • We talk to the designers behind some of this year’s Main Avenue and Sanctuary gardens about what has influenced and inspired their choices

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

New Blue Peter Garden – Discover Soil

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

Brewin Dolphin Garden

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

A Rewilding Britain Landscape

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

The RNLI...


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