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.

Welcome

Contributors

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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

WHAT TO DO IN… JUNE

3 FOR THE GARDEN… • GARDEN SCISSORS

June plants • Delicate woodlanders, a vigorous climber and the gloriously scented blossom of a stately tree are among the early summer highlights for head gardener Andrea Brunsendorf

KITTED OUT • Helpful gear for growing, picking and arranging cut flowers

Summertime at Sissinghurst • Ensuring Sissinghurst's famous roses look fabulous throughout the season is one of the many tasks keeping head gardener Troy Scott Smith and his team busy right now

Sissinghurst at sunset with Troy Scott Smith • Join our exclusive reader evening at the ultimate romantic garden. Enjoy a guided tour with head gardener Troy and wander the grounds at your leisure after visitors have left

HEAVEN SCENT • As summer adds a new dimension to his garden, Nigel Slater reflects on the rewards of planting for perfume

Faith in the future • Marian Boswall's contemporary design for the garden of a former chapel respects the property's history while looking to the future

MAGGIE TRAN • As the new head of gardens and growing on Tanera Mòr, a remote island in northwest Scotland, Maggie is on a mission to garden as sustainably as possible

SUMMERFLOWERING ALLIUMS • Loved for their showy spheres, alliums have long been stalwarts of late spring, but now new introductions are extending the party through summer

How to grow summer-flowering alliums

FRESH APPROACH • Colm Joseph's design for this new garden, which surrounds a modern house within a heritage setting, uses clever planting to give a historic site a contemporary feel

ANNIE GUILFOYLE • The garden polymath on the pleasures of passing on knowledge, the rewards of close observation and the circuitous route towards grounding her itchy feet

PERFECT HARMONY • Rosarian Michael Marriott and TV producer Rosie Irving have very different ideas on gardening, but they have discovered the secret to sharing a single plot amicably

30 plants with interest all year • These hard-working plants provide several seasons of interest in your garden through flowers, fruit, foliage, bark and even spring shoots

Colour therapy • Ann-Maree Winter's joyful Australian garden became a place of solace and nurture in hard times

Design • News, garden design insight and sourcebook

STEPS TO SUCCESS • Enclosed within a rustic barn conversion, this courtyard garden contrasts riotous Mediterranean-inspired gravel planting with clean lines and a reflective pool

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, Q&A, the crossword and the big idea

IN SUBURBIA • In this ground-breaking biography, a forgotten figure in 20th-century gardens is remembered as a true activist and small garden advocate, says Tim Richardson

Recommended reads this month

‘No one ever said gardening was a job option’ • The TV presenter, gardener and writer Frances Tophill talks about her new book documenting the first growing year in her own small garden

Crossword

CUSTOMISE YOUR PLANTS • Don't just grow your own – breed your own too, creating ‘grexes’ bespoke to your garden and resilient in our changing climate, says Alys Fowler