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Contributors
Clive is one of the UK’s foremost garden photographers, and his book, Brilliant English Gardens, features 27 superb gardens. See his photos of our Nation’s Favourite Gardens winners throughout this issue. Nicky is an award-winning photographer based
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Welcome
Dark and cold, with the glitz and sparkle of Christmas long gone, could February be the least popular month in the calendar? It’s definitely a contender for me. Here, then, is the perfect antidote to winter gloom: a special celebratory issue! Over th
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People to Meet
The ethnobotanist, writer, broadcaster and obsessive collector of houseplants calls for a greater understanding of plant science I’m frequently asked how my passion for botany began, but, to be honest, I can’t imagine how anyone could not be obsessed
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This Month
Snowdrops steal the limelight at this time of year, with gardens dedicated to them, festivals celebrating them and galanthophiles happily addicted to collecting them. But what about the winter aconite? These optimistic buttercup-like blooms are often
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For everyone who loves beautiful gardens theenglishgarden.co.uk The Chelsea Magazine Company Ltd, Jubilee House, 2 Jubilee Place, London SW3 3TQ Tel: 020 7349 3700 Email: theenglishgarden@chelseamagazines.com Editorial EDITOR Clare Foggett DEPUT
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Beautiful & Useful
Many specialist growers agree that the very best time to sow sweet peas is November. If you missed this opportunity, however, all is not lost. Take advantage of the post-Christmas lull to spend an afternoon at the potting table. Sweet peas need cold
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Bunny’s Diary
The winterberry, Ilex verticillata, floods the florists at Christmas. This deciduous holly with stems smothered in red berries is hugely popular. The berries persist until spring and last for weeks indoors. So why don’t we all grow it? I chatted to t
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Out & About
The beauty and biodiversity of Cameroon is the inspiration for this year’s Orchid Festival. The event celebrates the vibrant colours, varied landscapes and native wildlife of the West African nation, and visitors can enjoy displays constructed from a
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Artist’s Palette
For most gardeners, November is a time to retreat indoors, browse through the seed catalogues and dream of the warmer days to come. But not so at Ulting Wick in Essex; here the arrival of the first frosts kicks off a period of frenetic activity as Ph
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A Star IS BORN
To some people the only Timothee worth knowing is the ludicrously good-looking Timothée Chalamet, whom you may have seen in such films as Dune, Little Women and Call Me By Your Name. He has extraordinary cheekbones and an elfin look in his eye. The s
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Living LEGACY
When Michael O’Leary made his acceptance speech on winning the Nation’s Favourite Gardens competition in the Wales & The Marches region, the very first thing he said was that he couldn’t take all the credit for the garden at Hillcrest. Studded with c
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STAR TULIPS at Ulting Wick
A relatively new variety, this crimson Triumph type is flushed gold. When the sun shines on it, its cups appear to glow. This flamboyantly fringed tulip in purest white is a good foil for more colourful tulips and looks elegant on its own. Incredible
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Imitation GAME
When they arrived at Stretton Old Hall, just south of Chester, in 2012, Ken Roscoe and his husband, David Bradley, inherited a five-acre plot comprising little more than a sunken tennis court and a vast expanse of lawn. A decade on and the contempora
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Brilliant BLOOMS
Spikes of yellow flowers with purple centres on this short-lived 1.2m-tall perennial. Simply superb when grown in pots, their strappy leaves fountaining from the top. Try reliable, sky-blue ‘Charlotte’. Despite the name, this turk’s cap lily has dark
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TRIAL & Success
Not so long ago, Helen Brown was in her one-and-a-half-acre garden in Devon when a University of the Third Age (u3a) group arrived for a visit. One lady in the group was a textile artist. She spent a happy time exploring the garden and at the end of
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SPECIAL SELECTIONS at Little Ash
The sky-blue blooms of this Himalayan poppy are always a talking point. Grow it in humus-rich, neutral to acid soil. A martagon lily with multiple nodding flowers on each stem. It likes its roots in the shade and its head in the sun. This eye-catchin
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Urban Jungle
On the roof of the Barbican Centre, the modernist estate in the City of London, the Barbican Conservatory is second in size only to the Princess of Wales Conservatory at RBG Kew. Some 1,800 plant species grow under the 23,000ft2 glass and steel roof
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Tangerine Dreams
Snowdrops are an undisputed classic of the winter season. They are loved, anticipated, lauded and, when February comes, they are ubiquitous. But while a genus like Galanthus may be well-known, there are plantspeople whose focus on the fine print goes
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Treasure Trove
Set in the green and rolling countryside of Worcestershire, with sweeping views across to Martley Hillside and Woodbury Hill, Pear Tree Cottage is the pride and joy of Pamela and Alistair Thompson, who have lived here for the past 18 years. Pamela is
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Dark Arts
The best gardens reveal the personality and character of their creator, their passions and interests laid out, their plants a library of resonances, people and places. Elizabeth Strangman likens her garden to an “autograph book”, although this is no
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The Constant Garden
Greenhouses are one of the garden’s biggest investments. Often an investment that has been a long time in the dreaming, planning and saving. So when your dreams are finally fulfilled and a gleaming new greenhouse stands in your garden, it seems almos
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Plants for FEBRUARY
Where would gardeners be for winter flowers without lonicera? Although honeysuckles are best known as scented climbers for draping over arches or growing among rambling roses in summer, a few shrubby types bloom brilliantly in the depths of winter. B
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A Handmade Tale
Whenever Whitby-based florist and paper flower maker Sophie Longhurst chances upon a bloom she thinks is especially beautiful, she puts it to one side to inspect. If possible, she slices it in half to reveal its perfectly evolved structure: the tough
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Wrong Plant, Right Place
Whichever way you walk through the kaleidoscopic gardens at Great Dixter, you are likely to come across a delightful plant that, in another context, you would almost certainly dismiss as simply too old fashioned. I remember emerging one April from th

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