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 October

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

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

Things to Do • Jane Moore is dismantling summer pots and planning and planting winter ones, putting away bedding plants and potting up miniature daffodil bulbs

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

Tall Poppies

Rise & SHINE • With an ambitious development project called The Rising now well under way, the historic gardens of 14th-century Raby Castle in County Durham are in the ascendant, their course steered by star designers and a dedicated team

Between the LINES • A love of formal Italianate gardens informs the tastes of Nick Smith and Clark Landgrebe, owners of The Priory in Suffolk, but designer Frederic Whyte has persuaded them to combine clean lines with his own passion: fountaining grasses

High DRAMA • A dramatic garden around a flooded quarry in Fife, South Flisk has a wonderfully natural feel thanks to the spontaneous and largely hands-off approach of owner Julia Young, its colourful beauty offering surprises at every turn

Saturation POINT • The rich, moist soil of Hampshire’s Bere Mill is fed by tributaries of the River Test, creating the perfect conditions for lush, colourful plantings to thrive and spread around the mature trees and water meadows of this peaceful natural haven

Heart SPACE • At Newton House, a Grade II listed cottage near Zeal Monachorum, Susan Taheri and Ben Foster have spent the past 16 years uncovering and restoring the layers of a much-loved garden, making something colourful, peaceful and intensely cherished

Star Appeal • Hardy, vigorous, mildew-resistant New England asters give the early-autumn garden a last starry blast of colour. Val Bourne visits Old Court Nurseries to learn more

Run for Cover • Serving many purposes, from filling bare patches to retaining moisture, groundcover plants are a must, as RHS Garden Wisley’s Rob Brett explains

GOOD to GROW • Follow our grow-your-own series all through the year from the walled kitchen garden at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex, where head gardener Tom Coward and his team produce abundant edible crops

GET THE GLOW • At Long House Plants in Essex, Tim Carter’s particular interest in grasses has culminated in luminous autumn displays to inspire eager customers

Dare to go Bare • What they lack in looks and instant gratification, bareroot plants more than make up for in sustainability, vigour and value for money, with bareroot perennials now available alongside the more common roses, shrubs and fruit trees

TREND SETTERS • Autumn is the perfect time of year to get spring-flowering bulbs in the ground. If you want to try something different, leading bulb suppliers offer their advice on the most fashionable picks for fabulous colour

CRYSTAL PALACES • Set to reopen after a six-year restoration project, the gleaming Palm Houses at RBG Edinburgh are now a truly jaw-dropping sight. Sheila M. Averbuch tells their story

The Old Ways • Using traditional techniques and an established workforce, the family business of Whichford Pottery, now in its 50th year,...