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

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

Things to Do • Days lengthen in June and Jane Moore is spending more time in the garden weeding, staking, filling gaps and replanting pots in bold new colour schemes

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

Sweet Talk • Nothing says summer quite like sweet peas. Silken of petal and sweet of scent, these gorgeous flowers bring a sense of indulgent English abundance to a garden or a vase indoors. Grow them yourself or take inspiration from their delicate beauty with themed homeware. By hope sweet pea linen table cloth, £125. domenicamarland.com

Time OUT • A constant cavalcade of floriferousness from subtropical and Mediterranean planting means seasons merge and time stands still in the unusual climate of Tresco Abbey Garden on the Isles of Scilly

Back to BASICS • Mary Giblin has gardened all her life but after completing a design course, her new space has had the benefit of what she calls a ‘garden-changing’ approach

A Very Rosy GLOW • The magical gardens at Westbrook House on the Somerset Levels truly shine, the owners’ impeccable style and taste resulting in a fascinating textural palette interwoven with roses and topiary

Character STUDY • Passionate plant lover Jane Collins believes every specimen has its own character, which must be respected, and by playing to their strengths has made a charming froth of a garden at Orchard Cottage in East Sussex

THE HIGH Life • A carefully chosen palette of colour fills the garden of Tythe Barn on the outskirts of Oxford with soothing cottage garden planting, while a wildflower meadow enlivens the landscape with the thrum of insects

GOLDEN Wonders • Wonderlands by Clare Coulson explores the glorious gardens of 18 renowned landscape architects. In this exclusive extract from her book, she visits the North Wiltshire home of Catherine FitzGerald and Dominic West

Celebration TIME • At Garden Cottage in Bolam, Northumberland, Heather and John Russell have, over 43 years, coaxed a spiritual garden filled with playful surprises from an overgrown dilapidated jumble – and now the time has come to revel in their accomplishments

Pick of the Bunch • A new flower garden at Berrington Hall in Herefordshire will open this month, and senior gardener David Thresher recommends his favourite plants from it

In From the Cold • Early Siberian irises lack the flamboyance of their bearded cousins, but their resurgence is down to their toughness, elegance and ability to fill a gap at a tricky time of year, according to National Collection holder Pamela Ferns.

A Tall Order • In the space behind the modest row of cottages where he lives on the outskirts of Leeds, so called ‘Delphinium Dad’ Colin Parton has established the most incredible National Collection of towering Delphinium elatum cultivars

ROSE-TINTED SPECTACLES • Take a close look at roses that will climb and cover, flower again and again, offer superb reliability or perfume the air in our guide to the best varieties

THE CALL OF THE WILD • As our climate changes and our...