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Welcome
After what felt like quite a late spring, summer has blissfully, finally arrived in our gardens. It’s the perfect time to indulge in a bit of garden visiting, enjoying the diverse ideas, styles and planting in other people’s plots. Even if you can’t
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EDITORIAL Editor Stephanie Mahon Art director David Grenham Deputy editor Sorrel Everton Deputy art editor Niki Goss Production editor Juliet Giles Digital editor Daisy Bowie-Sell Commissioning content editor Veronica Peerless Content producer Molly
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Dig In
A new exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show, highlights the botanical world at ts most wonderful. It is fascinating to see the many ways in which botanical artists and photographers have chosen to capture th
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Dutch Design
The Netherlands is famous for horticultural excellence and innovations at the forefront of garden design, with the likes of internationally renowned Piet Oudolf, Jacqueline van der Kloet and Robert Broekema as contemporary names leading the way. The
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Contributors
Jodie Jones Jodie visits The White Company founder Chrissie Rucker's garden, page 58. "I wasn’t surprised Chrissie has a white garden, but I was impressed by how interesting it is.” Alister Thorpe Alister photographs an Essex garden, page 82. “I’m in
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June Plants
In early summer, these tangerine spires make wonderful bold statements in our borders as they rise through the fresh, wispy foliage of Stipa tenuissima and self-seeded, white-flowered milk thistle Galactites tomentosa ‘Alba’. Eryngium × oliverianum o
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Places To Visit
Be sure to check opening times. Some garden visits may need to be pre-booked. I must confess I hadn’t heard of Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden until fairly recently. Tucked away in a woodland valley at the foot of Leith Hill, Surrey, this hidden gem
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True Grit
What Private garden and nursery of Peter Korn and Julia Andersson. Where Sweden. Size Three-and-a-half acres. Soil Sand beds over alkaline soil. Climate Cold and windy winters with mild summers and light to moderate rainfall. Hardiness zone USDA 7a.
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Pale And Interesting
What Private family garden. Where Buckinghamshire. Size A one-acre walled garden, within a larger space of approximately ten acres in total. Soil Neutral to alkaline loam. Climate Temperate. Hardiness zone USDA 8. Chrissie Rucker OBE loves the sense
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Geum
What A genus of around 54 species in the Rosaceae family. Geums are hardy evergreen perennials with showy, brightly coloured flowers, and are commonly known as avens. Origins Native to temperate regions of all continents (apart from Australia and Ant
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Added Interest?
There is seemingly no end to miracle additives on the market, all offering gardeners the appealing promise that they will make your plants bigger or healthier - or possibly even both. Often there is little, if any, way of knowing whether or not they
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Cecily Withall
Earliest memory of trees Sitting on my dad’s shoulders as a little girl, walking through our local woods in East Lothian, Scotland. Beech, pine, birch and maple were common in the coastal woodlands and we often collected bark, leaves and needles for
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Paolo Pejrone
Hailed, often, as Italy’s greatest landscape architect and garden designer, Paolo Pejrone somehow remains just behind the curtain on the world stage of archi-gardener stars. Pejrone (pronounced pay-RO-neh) might not be a household name outside his ow
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How To Grow Geum
• Plant geums in late summer and autumn, or in early spring, when the ground is not dry or frozen. Geums are hardy and will bounce back even after a cold winter. • Soil should be fertile, well-drained and moisture-retentive. As a group, these plants
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Wild Dreams
What Private ornamental garden. Where East Sussex. Size Eight acres. Soil Variable but mainly heavy clay loam. Climate Temperate maritime with dry summers. Hardiness zone USDA 8. Sloping northwest, this garden sits atop a gentle hill in the Sussex Hi
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Nature First
Name Dowdeswell Court. What The organically certified parkland and gardens of a Grade II-listed house. Where Gloucestershire. Size About 80 acres. Soil Neutral soil on a limestone shaft. Climate Relatively sheltered and the south-facing aspect of mos
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Mixed Blessings
Name Church Barn. What A naturalistic, lowmaintenance garden in full sun. Where Essex. Size 700 square metres. Soil Clay. Climate Warm, temperate, low rainfall, dry in summer. Hardiness zone USDA 8b. When landscape architect Stefano Marinaz first arr
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Good Enough To Eat
ALISON JENKINS Alison runs Damson Farm, near Bath, where she regularly holds workshops on edible growing. alisonjenkins.co.uk Gathering and eating leaves, flowers and fruit brings an element of intimacy to your relationship with the garden, especial
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Gathering Attention
At the end of the Second World War, Ivor Novello’s We’ll Gather Lilacs was one of the most popular songs in Britain. Recorded by many performers, the sentimental song held out a promise to weary soldiers of a springtime reunion with loved ones, gathe
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Change Of Tune
What Small, suburban garden. Where The Netherlands. Size 360 square metres. Soil Heavy, alluvial clay. Climate Temperate maritime. Hardiness zone USDA 8b. Some people go to a particular garden designer because they know exactly what they’ll get. That
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Floral Flavours
We are Jo (an organic gardener and teacher) and Erin (a cook, recipe developer and food stylist) and together we run The Edible Flower, a seven-acre organic small holding in Co. Down. We run supper clubs, cooking and growing workshops, volunteer days
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Flow State
This courtyard garden in Provence, part of an old mas or agricultural property, was open to the road and full of rubble when designer James Basson first saw it. The striking new design is the result of a collaboration between James and the owner, a b
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Recipes
I love the scent of French marigolds, but I’m not a big fan of eating the petals raw, because the citrusy flavour is overwhelmed by bitterness. But I have discovered that once they are encased in pasta and cooked, their herbal flavour with its hint o
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Design
Rotterdam-based LOLA Landscape Architects has designed extensive green spaces to surround a new residential tower in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. At 120 metres tall, the tower, Duet, designed by Dutch architecture practice Powerhouse, in collaboration
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Garden Studios
Dominator Insulated Garden Office, From £8,909.99, Dunster House, 01234 817897, dunsterhouse.co.uk The Cabin, From £32,000, Plankbridge, 01300 348414, plankbridge.com Hampton Grey Studio, From £7,995, Sanctum Garden Studios, 01257 279161, sanctumgard
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Downtools
by Heidi Howcroft and Marianne Majerus Mitchell Beazley, £40 ISBN 978-1784727826 Reviewer Natalie Ashbee is a garden consultant and garden writer. Some may argue that garden styles have barely changed in 1,000 years, with trends simply coming and goi
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Crossword
1 Underground runner forming new plants at the tip - lots on developing (6) 5 National Trust for Scotland’s Highlands botanical garden - were vine to be transformed (8) 9 Have a longing for English … red-skinned maincrop potato (7) 10 Carrot cultivar
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Other Books
by Matthew Smith and Grete Smith Crowood Press, £16.99 ISBN 978-0719842030 A practical guide to growing tulips, including a wealth of information on current and past selections, planting situations and gardens where tulips have been used to great eff
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Sissinghurst Castle head gardener Troy Scott Smith shows how to make a natural support for peonies. Learn about the best plants and flowers to attract pollinating insects and how to create habitats for them. Find out how amazing aphids can adapt to p
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Working Out
It feels very, well, 2020 to be bringing up the whole garden studio thing. Remember this time three years ago, when we all emerged, blinking, into that glorious summer in the wake of lockdown, sitting on our individual picnic blankets and still not h

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