Our design sourcebook highlights a selection of the most stylish metal garden benches
DESIGN SOURCEBOOK
Here's our choice of the most beautiful metal seating for your garden
PRETTY AS A PICTURE
Garden bench
3-seater, £495 (cushions extra)
Susie Watson
Join us at Gravetye Manor, the home of pioneering Victorian gardener William Robinson, for talks with head gardener Tom Coward and garden historian and design critique Tim Richardson.
If you're going to the Chelsea Flower Show, visit the Gardens Illustrated stand and sign up to our special subscription offer. Save 40% on the shop price* and choose from either Piet Oudolf's latest book or a Haws copper watering can as your free gift.
Subscribe to GARDENS ILLUSTRATED at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (21-25 May). You'll save 40% on the shop price* and you can choose a FREE gift as part of your subscription package. Choose from either:
The Beth Chatto Nursery is offering a 10% discount on plants, including a selection of those mentioned in Piet Oudolf's 100 must-have plants featured in the February 2013 issue.
Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter, begins a new series of Nurseryman's Favourites. This month he selects those small, often delicate, plants that bring the February garden to life.
Garden designer and historian Penelope Hobhouse chooses 25 of her favourite gardens to visit throughout England.
Winter is the perfect time to think about your garden and how it can look even better next year. Award-winning designer Jinny Blom gives us her 10-point plan of things to consider.
I’ve lived in my current house for the last 26 years. My garden has changed at least four times in that period as time, energy and budget permitted, and currently is undergoing a major overhaul, the biggest yet!
Online plant retailer Crocus is offering readers a 15% discount this month on their plant range - and many of their products
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Online plant retailer Crocus is offering readers a 15% discount across their range this month*.
This is a fantastic offer - interesting combinations to create your own own stylish spring planting displays, quality bulbs from one of the top bulb specialists AND a 25% saving
Inspired by the spring planting combinations from Helen Dillon in the October issue of the magazine (issue 190, see page 76), award-winning bulb specialist Avon Bulbs has put together five collections for Gardens Illustrated readers at a 25% saving. Each collection is based around a colour theme and can be planted now for a spring display next year. Ideal for naturalised plantings or planted in a series of containers.
Suffolk-based artist Tessa Newcomb's new book The Adorable Plot celebrates the allotment in all it quirky characterfulness. We have news of an exhibition of her painting, plus a reader offer on the book.
If you noticed our story in the September issue about artist Tessa Newcomb’s new book The Adorable Plot, you might be interested to hear that there is an exhibition of her work this autumn at the Yew Tree Gallery nr Penzance, Cornwall. Painting from the book will feature as part of the gallery’s autumn exhibition ‘Pastorale’.
Private view 2 September with the exhibition continuing until 27 October
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Your guide to the best courses available in garden design and horticulture
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An extensive guide to the best horticultural specialists.
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Sweeping plains, majestic mountains, stunning vistas and miles of unspoilt coastline...
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Set your New Year budget with help from the right bank account
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If you have ever thought that greenhouses are as alike as peas in a pod, then think again.
