The English Garden

Bringing the UK's most beautiful gardens to life.

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Welcome
I’ve spent much of the past month preparing the final section of a new border that completes my plan for the garden. Really it’s been far too wet to be trampling over and digging the soil, but with plants desperate to get out of their pots and into t
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Contributors
Since the publication of her first book, The Cutting Garden, Sarah has pioneered a new kind of productive gardening, combining colour, beauty and biodiversity. Find her advice on gardening for birds on page 85. Jonathan is based in Gloucestershire, s
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For everyone who loves beautiful gardens theenglishgarden.co.uk The Chelsea Magazine Company Ltd, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT Tel: 020 7349 3700 Email: theenglishgarden@chelseamagazines.com Editorial EDITOR Clare Foggett DEPUTY EDI
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This Month
This deciduous shrub’s clusters of blush-white flowers, opening from pink buds, can appear as early as November and keep on adorning its bare branches until as late as March. The milder the winter weather, the more buds will open up at any one time,
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People to Meet
The owners of Petalon, an ethical Cornish flower farm and delivery service, on going above and beyond their B Corp certification Florence: A decade ago, James bought a bouquet of flowers that was fairly uninspiring. After visiting the flower markets,
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Out & About
London, 13 November – 5 January Head to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on a winter’s afternoon to see these world-famous gardens lit up by festive illuminations. As well as the spectacular Palm House light show, visitors can enjoy brand new installat
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Things to Do
In the heady heat of late summer, battling with overgrown borders and biting insects, I really start to look forward to the winter frosts and those crisp days of winter when order and composure reign supreme outdoors. The autumn tidy up has happened,
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Beautiful & Useful
Good outdoor footwear is an essential in winter, especially when ground is sodden following a heavy storm. Sturdy, durable Blundstone boots are the shoes of choice among gardening fashionistas – seek out the Classic series for the right look – or try
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It’s The Most Wonderful Time
December is the time to settle down and get cosy as you compile your Christmas gift list for the gardeners in your life. Our festive gift guide is packed with inspired present suggestions, from practical gardening gear to beautiful homeware, elegant
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POMP & Circumstance
When most of us move into what we might term a ‘forever home’, we probably anticipate living there for perhaps thirty or so years until downsizing. For the current Lord and Lady Salisbury, much longer timeframes are involved: Hatfield House has been
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Winter’s PALETTE
“Only in winter, when nature is pared right back, can you fully appreciate the brilliance of the garden’s design and the full extent of the borrowed landscape. A tree in full leaf blocks part of a vista, but a skeletal tree reveals the landscape beyo
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Menu du Jour
When Toby and Zoe Billington moved into their new house in West Sussex in 2012, they knew what kind of garden they wanted to create. “Zoe was keen to have a cottage garden around the house – blue agapanthus, purple nepeta and whites – and I wanted a
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Where it BEGAN
On a still winter’s day, an amplified sense of peace falls over Long Barn Gardens in Kent. But if the frost-laden box and yew, some of which have stood sentry for the best part of 100 winters could talk, the silence would be broken by their chatter o
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The Constant GARDEN
Even on the shortest and darkest days of the year, the garden surrounding Ivy Croft, a small timber-framed former cider house west of Leominster in Herefordshire, is threaded with colour, texture and scent. Trees are wrapped in bark as tactile as sat
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The Best Tools To Buy
A freelance writer, editor and broadcaster, Geoff has worked in the gardening industry for more than 30 years. His books include Pruning and RHS Botany for Gardeners . His Cambridgeshire garden features a wide range of plants and is regularly called
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Pillars of Support
Container planting works best with a permanent element around which seasonal bulbs and annuals are added – and hardy evergreens are ideal for the job. With varied textures and colours, they’re strong enough to stand alone while providing a robust foi
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A Double Vision
Even without its connotations of Christmas, holly comes into its own in winter. When so much of the garden is leafless, holly truly makes a splendid sight, its glossy evergreen leaves providing the sort of vibrant verdancy that’s so very welcome at t
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A Bird’s Eye View
A garden without birds, I think now, is as hopeless as a garden without flowers. Ensuring your outdoor space is as rich in birdlife as it can possibly be is a good thing to be thinking about over the winter months: it’s an ideal moment to lay the fou
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Bright Spots
A cherished lichen-stippled terracotta trough makes a fitting home for this elegant line-up of wintry perennials, with the sophisticated muted colour scheme echoing the quiet of the season. In early December these plants will mostly still be in bud –
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Different Light
“I think conifers are deeply misunderstood plants,” declares Daniel Luscombe, curator of Forestry England Bedgebury National Pinetum in Kent. “They’re underused by gardeners, and all too often wrongly used.” Daniel ascribes their fall from grace to t
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The Big Apple
On 11 November last year, I was shopping in Bury St Edmunds’ bustling Saturday market. As the clock struck eleven, the steady, heart-catching call of the ‘Last Post’ filled the clear blue sky above us and the market came to a standstill. Once the two
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DIY Christmas
Gardens are a wonderful resource at any time of year, but around Christmas they offer a bounty of decorative material, not to mention food, to use in the winter festivities. Head outdoors, basket and secateurs in hand, to gather the likes of bay, spr

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