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Ngoc Minh Ngo Ngoc photographs a Dan Pearson design, page 28. “Robin Hill is a spectacular corner of the world, made all the more beautiful by Dan's sensitive design and head gardener James's devoted care.” Andrew Gladman Andrew explores the variety
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Welcome
Wild gardens. That pairing of words is challenging, because for many people, ‘wild' means untouched by humans, but a garden is a landscape wholly crafted by us. Do we think a wild place can only be one without people? A romantic ideal of pristine unt
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Dig In
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was one of the UK's most influential horticulturists. A plantswoman, designer and author, she created some 400 gardens, introduced at least 30 new varieties of plants to British gardens, and was one of the first women to b
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Walk On The Wild Side
All three of the young designers competing for the coveted RHS Young Designer of the Year Award at this year's RHS Flower Show Tatton Park (19-23 July) have included an air of wildness in their gardens. “I find wilder gardens that imitate nature more
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3 For The Garden…
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Wild Ideas
As you can't fail to have noticed, rewilding is everywhere. But what exactly does it mean for gardeners? One problem is the word itself, which is so elastic that it can mean almost anything, depending on whom you talk to. If you could eavesdrop on ec
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Anna Mortimer
If gardening is a career change, what did you do before? I worked as a project co-ordinator for a charity focusing on international voluntary youth projects. I took a career break to take part in one of these projects and spent six months in Chiapas,
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Nature's Way
Name Robin Hill. What Sweeping garden landscape around a 1920s house. Where Connecticut, USA. Size 20 acres. Soil Acidic and dry, thin and rocky in the meadow, richer in the woodland, long-cultivated in the cutting garden. Climate Winters in New Engl
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Echinops
What A genus of around 218 species of annuals, biennials, and herbaceous perennials, commonly known as globe thistles. Only a small proportion of globe thistle species have reached gardens in the UK – the majority are cultivars of Echinops bannaticus
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Runnings Wild
Name Cwm Farm. What Exuberantly planted garden featuring a mix of informal and wild planting, and structural elements of topiary and hedging. Where Monmouthshire. Size Three acres and growing. Soil Rich loam with large areas of heavy clay. Climate Te
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How To Grow Echinops
• Echinops are low-maintenance and drought-tolerant perennials. Planting them in medium to free-draining poor soil in full sun will often create the best flowering display. A neutral soil is favourable, though many find success in alkaline soils. Whe
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Just Add Water
What Water meadow garden. Where Buckinghamshire. Size 13m x 36m. Soil Heavy clay. Climate Temperate. Hardiness zone USDA 8. Many of us revamped our gardens during the lockdowns of the Covid pandemic, but few of us can claim to have embarked on projec
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Cool And Unusual
As a young girl, Lisa Wesley was obsessed with plants. “I'd spend hours with my dad looking for wildflowers in the local woods and, when I was about seven, I got hold of some books and began teaching myself all their names.” Then her aunt gave her a
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The Bad And The Beautiful
I've always been drawn to the work of the 18th-century Dutch still life painters, dynamically lit to increase the contrast of light and dark – a technique known as chiaroscuro. The inspiration for this arrangement came from Jan van Huysum's painting
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Phil Sterling
P hil Sterling is a man on a mission – to convert every motorway embankment, every roadside verge, every unloved patch of grass in our under-resourced urban parks, even every golf course, into a flower-rich haven for wildlife – specifically our threa
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New Awakenings
What An ornate, productive garden that embraces wildlife. Where The Netherlands. Size 3,500 square metres. Soil Dry, sandy soil. Climate Cool temperate. Hardiness zone USDA 7. Striking a balance between an overly cultivated garden and one that permit
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Rewilding Minds
What Private walled garden, open for pre-booked guided tours. Where West Sussex. Size Just over an acre. Soil Highly manipulated combination of existing topsoil, sand and crushed aggregates. Climate Temperate. Hardiness zone USDA 9. There is a whiff
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A day at Knepp Castle Walled Garden
The Walled Garden at Knepp Castle is a horticultural experiment, inspired by what owners Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree learned from rewilding in the wider landscape of the Knepp Estate. The project was masterminded by experts including Tom Stuart
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Design
A small pocket park that sits in the intersection of several lanes of traffic in Boston, Massachusetts, has won the Award of Excellence in the Built – Small Design category at this year's World Landscape Architecture Awards for an entry entitled ‘Thi
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Container Ponds
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Off The Beaten Track
The gardens in this tree-lined neighbourhood in suburban Los Gatos, California, are neat parcels of rectangular lawn – which are not, of course, suited to the dry climate. The owners of this ‘L-eichler' (as in a ‘like an Eichler') house – a mid-centu
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Downtools
Horticulturist and garden writer Alys Fowler chooses ten of her favourite books on the theme of wilding, which takes us on a wide-ranging journey from the pioneering plantings of the Victorian wild gardener William Robinson to heartfelt poetry. Disco
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Crossword
6 Garden molluscs, food for thrushes and hedgehogs, etc, but bad for eg hostas (5) 7 Bundle of long straw ready for thatching – sort of mealy (5) 8 An endangered pollinator – to live needs energy (3) 10 Genus of ‘starflower' plants – in hope I cultiv
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Letting The Wild In
It happens about once a week – I emerge from bed to inspect the garden, and find that something has been rummaging in the night. A broken stem of last summer's growth here, half a chewed-up glove there, a plastic compost bag trawled across the lawn.

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