Gardens Illustrated 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.

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Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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

What to do this month

3 FOR THE GARDEN… • SOIL METERS

KITTED OUT • For a tidy and organised tool shed

February plants • In the first of a new monthly series, designer and plantsman Dan Pearson chooses ten plants from his garden at Hillside that offer early interest

DAYDREAM BELIEVER • Fuelled by the temptations of plant catalogues, Nigel Slater fills winter days imagining his dream garden

The future for Sissinghurst • The climate crisis is affecting us all. Head gardener Troy Scott Smith outlines the challenges he faces and explains how he is now working differently

BIG CHANGES TO HOW WE GARDEN • There is no doubt that climate change and its effects are prompting us to reassess how we work here. It is through adaptation and flexibility that we will conserve the garden for generations to come. Here are some of the ways we are changing our approach.

Big decisions for the long term

ROISIN TAYLOR • Flower farmer Roisin is owner of Verde Flower Co, based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and is currently establishing the British Cut Flower Association

50 JINNY BLOM'S favourite plants • Award-winning landscape designer Jinny Blom set up her studio in 2000 and has since designed many beautiful, thoughtful gardens, both large and small, around the world. An accomplished plantswoman, she has also designed five show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including gardens for King Charles and Prince Harry, and written two books. Having formerly worked as a psychologist, she takes a special interest in the benefits of gardens and plants. Here, she reveals the 50 plants she loves most

BEECH GARDENS at the Barbican, ten years on • As a new phase of planting begins, Professor Nigel Dunnett looks at how the iconic public gardens he created at The Barbican Estate in London have evolved over the past decade

KEITH HAMMETT • The sweet pea and dahlia breeder on his early love of breeding, the excitement of seeing dahlias in the wild and finding the missing slice of the sweet pea colour spectrum

HEUCHERA AND TIARELLA • With their striking foliage in a range of bold colours, heucheras, and the associated heucherellas and tiarellas, are low-maintenance plants that offer year-round colour

How to grow Heuchera, x Heucherella and Tiarella

VERDANT VALLEY • For his own Mediterranean garden, designer Maurizio Usai has gone against the trend for drought-tolerant planting and created a lush, green natural oasis

Food for thought • More people than ever want to grow their own, for a variety of reasons, says Dr Richard Claxton, and this one thing can improve our health and help the planet

Bright blooms • Flowering shrubs bring much needed colour and scent to the garden in late winter and early spring. Expert Tony Kirkham selects the best

Design • News, garden design solutions and sourcebook

DESIGN NOTES • A residential project designed with large, organically shaped, island planting beds

CREATING CONTEMPORARY PLANTING BEDS • Designer Charlotte Harris reflects on the shift towards organically shaped ‘island’ planting beds, and reveals inside tips on how to get the right effect

DESIGN IDEAS

CASE STUDY • Worsley Welcome Garden, RHS Bridgewater

Trellises •...