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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
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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
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A Rewilding Britain Landscape
WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR
The RNLI...