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 September

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 • In the dying days of late summer, Jane Moore busies herself dividing irises, replacing tired lavender and collecting seed, as the garden enjoys its last hurrah

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

Safe Keeping

An Eye FOR BEAUTY • Artist Debbie Taussig drew from the canon of gardening greats when designing her garden at The Old Rectory on the Hertfordshire-Cambridgeshire border, making it a masterpiece in its own right

Time After TIME • Thought and time has made the garden of Hill House in Northumberland what it is today, a mature space, well gardened for 150 years even before the current owners took it over in 1984, its magic now being enjoyed by a new generation

The Sum of ITS PARTS • Jo and Mark Howard have applied mathematical principles to their young but flourishing garden at Wolfe Hall in Suffolk to create a surprisingly free-flowing, cohesive and sumptuously planted space

Life FORCE • Inspired by the Thackray family’s pioneering medical legacy, the astonishing garden at Littlethorpe Manor in North Yorkshire takes health and healing as its central themes, with every season bringing fresh beauty, renewal and hope

Vision EXPRESS • With his experienced artist’s eye, designer Joe Swift was able to discern the abundant garden begging to be created from a bland expanse of lawn, deploying clever landscaping, fast-growing grasses, perennials and mature trees for instant impact

Torch Song • Singing the praises of fiery kniphofia, whose spires of glowing colour will light up any garden hotspot, with special advice from Claire Austin on choosing daintier varieties in cooler tones

The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle • For sheer floral flamboyance, little compares to the dahlia. Hever Castle’s head gardener Neil Miller has ten spectacular specimens to recommend

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

Super Savers • Aside from the main business of growing, supplying and arranging cut flowers for events, Green & Gorgeous is increasingly focused on saving and selling flower seed. Owner Rachel Siegfried explains the process with tips you can use at home

Something Special • Louisina Currie and her daughter Lauren Printy Currie talk to Helen Cross about their inspirational cut flower farm, floristry design studio and flower school, Days of Dahlia, which, as the name suggests, celebrates these dazzling flowers

Breathing Space • Create the extra space you need for working, hobbies or hosting guests without going to the trouble of moving house or building an extension. We look at all the important points to consider when commissioning a garden room

Hello Sunshine • As the sun beams down daily on our gardens it ignites many dazzling effects, highlighting flower and leaf and casting hypnotic shadows. Bob Purnell explores and celebrates the enthralling interactions of light and...