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 June

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

James’s favourite gardens to visit

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

Bunny’s Diary • This month, Bunny Guinness makes multi-stemmed trees and extols the virtues of baseless pots

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

Instant Makeover

Breathing SPACE • Constrained by city living, Rajat Jindal longed for freedom. He found that at Church Cottage in Suffolk, where areas of tightly clipped formality now contrast with an expansive natural meadow

In Pursuit of BEAUTY • Tireless year-round planning and hard work are key to Sandra and Jonathan Blaza’s gorgeous country garden of rooms at The Old Vicarage in Rutland

Wisteria standards

TWO HALVES OF A WHOLE • Aptly named Gardeners’ Cottage near Ludlow showcases the best of two styles, with Rosie Irving favouring colourful cultivation and her partner, Michael Marriott, preferring natural abundance – all united by masses of roses

Expert SELECTION • Sumptuous roses in a range of shades, chosen by eminent rosarian Michael Marriott

The Right DIRECTION • Longing for a fresh start and a new project, Wendy and Tony Lander took on Flintshire’s neglected Donadea Lodge and, using the garden’s strong bones as a guide, have steered it back to its former glory

Paradise RECLAIMED • Inspired by the beauty of its rural setting, Jennie and Jethro Marles took on the site of an intensive pig farm at Dorset’s Am Brook Meadow and restored its lifeless soil with meadowland planting and water features to create an idyllic natural haven

Back to NATURE • At Old Allangrange, on Scotland’s rural Black Isle peninsula, JayJay and David Gladwin aim to redress the balance between agriculture and nature by applying organic, wildlife-friendly principles to both its garden and farmland

Wild ONES • JayJay Gladwin chooses plants with a natural aesthetic and value for wildlife in mind

The Perfect Fit • Kerryn Harper-Cuss talks to three leading sculptors working in wood, stone and bronze, to garner inspiration and advice on choosing and positioning a piece of garden art

Thoughts on locating sculpture

Learn & Grow • Take an online course from Learning with Experts and personalised feedback from your specialist tutor will help you develop your skills to become a better gardener

“I had no idea I’d be this busy!” • Sallie Boge increased her knowledge and skills with Learning with Experts and grew her business as a result

“It has totally changed my life” • Ane Hoffmeyer studied with Learning with Experts when she changed career to become a garden designer

Call of the Wild • Dedicated to increasing the biodiversity of the Herstmonceux Castle estate, Guy Lucas favours native planting and has ten suggestions for meadows

Key Workers • Undervalued and overlooked for years, versatile and dependable potentilla flower nonstop, providing vital sustenance for pollinators, and are often the saviour of a tired border, says Louise Curley

Caring for potentilla • Peter Chapman, newly retired owner of Perryhill Nurseries in...