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

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3 FOR THE GARDEN… • RIDDLES

Benton End at iris time • Join our exclusive reader day for a behind-thescenes preview of the famous home and garden of the late artist-plantsman Cedric Morris, while it is in the process of being revitalised

March plants • With spring firmly in the air, designer and plantsman Dan Pearson chooses ten plants from his garden Hillside, in Somerset, that bring him joy this month

KITTED OUT • For upgrading your gardening gear

Past perfect • Every generation that has lived at Doddington Place in Kent has played a part in the evolution of the garden, resulting in a graceful and historical mix of then and now

8 key plants from Doddington

GAME OF THORNS • Should Nigel Slater rethink his gardening wardrobe or admit defeat in the endless battle between jumpers and roses?

LEWISIA • These brightly coloured, early spring-flowering alpine plants are perfect for rock and crevice gardens or tumbling down a stone wall

How to grow Lewisia

DYLAN PRICE • A trainee gardener at London's Inner Temple Garden, Dylan loves spontaneity in planting and billowing borders

All in good time • Alongside his Midlands nursery, John Massey has created a glorious garden that has been allowed to mature gradually

John's top 8 spring plants

Seasonal shift • In the first of a new container-planting series, James Horner, garden maker at Benton End, the one-time home of the artist and plantsman Cedric Morris, suggests three arrangements to celebrate spring

CHRIS THOROGOOD • The deputy director and head of science at Oxford Botanic Garden on his early obsession with squirting cucumbers, his detailed botanic art and clambering over cliff edges

NATURE'S PLAYGROUND • Dutch garden and landscape designer Arjan Boekel has transformed his tiny town garden in the Netherlands into a miniature woodland gladeq

ARJAN'S TOP SPRING PLANTS

Thrown and grown • Flower farmer and florist Rachel Siegfried reveals how a passion for pottery has led to her designing and throwing vases for her seasonally grown blooms

Private passion • For more than 50 years, Maurice Foster has been amassing a collection of woody plants in his garden at White House Farm, which has grown into a precious horticultural resource

Maurice's 8 key plants

A cure for all ills? • In his final column, Dr Richard Claxton looks at how spending time in gardens and green spaces can actually help prevent illness and aid in its treatment

ON ANOTHER LEVEL • With a brief to create a terraced garden in the Ibizan countryside, designer Juan Masedo has balanced the ancient and the modern in a remarkably subtle scheme

8 top dry garden plants

Design • News, garden design solutions and sourcebook

DESIGN NOTES

FRONT GARDEN IDEAS • Designer Charlotte Harris offers inspiration and advice on making the most of the small awkward space outside your front door

DESIGN IDEAS

CASE STUDY • Sydenham Hill front garden

Outdoor corner sofas • Create a stylish outdoor seating area with our choice of the best corner sofas

HOME STYLE • Maddie Bailey of Forest London shares advice on the best houseplants to...