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Tessa Newcomb paintings

The Adorable Plot, Tessa Newcomb

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

Creative containers for late summer

Sarah Price's combination for late-summer container c. Andrew Montgomery

Designer Sarah Price uses plants of different form and scale to create an eye-catching, late-summer container display 

Late-summer celebration

Reader day at Great Dixter – 'Succession Planting' SOLD OUT

Great Dixter with the Long Border

Head gardener Fergus Garrett shares his ideas on how to bring colour, texture and form to your garden through the year. Our 'Succession Planting' reader day takes place at Great Dixter, 12 November 2012. Please note this event is now SOLD OUT

 

   

 

Book Review - Gardens: Their Hidden Life

Gardens Their Hidden Life by Colin Spedding

Garden columnist Francine Raymond reviews Colin Spedding's book Gardens: Their Hidden Life and discovers that his aim is to get us thinking about our gardens as important wildlife habitats with all the flora and fauna they support (even the pests and weeds).

Gardens: their Hidden Life - Unnoticed plants and unseen animals
by Colin Spedding
Bloomsbury, £25
ISBN 978 1408158685

Nurseryman's favourites – July

Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra ‘Summer Nights’ c. Jason Ingram

Chris Marchant of Orchard Dene Nurseries highlights Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra ‘Summer Nights’ for its gorgeous golden flowers that brighten the garden in July. PLUS places to visit to enjoy summer plantings at their best

 

Special subscription offer at this summer's flower shows

Sneeboer Gardens Illustrated-stamped fork

Get a free Sneeboer fork when you subscribe to GARDENS ILLUSTRATED at the Chelsea Flower Show, BBC Gardeners' World Live, Coombe Trenchard's Arts & Crafts Garden Festival, or the Cottesbrooke Gardeners' Fair.

Subscribe to GARDENS ILLUSTRATED at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (22-26 May), Coombe Trenchard Arts & Crafts Garden Festival (1-2 June), BBC Gardeners’ World Live (13-17 June), or Cottesbrooke Gardeners' Fair (22-24 June) and you can choose a FREE gift as part of your subscription package.

Cottesbrooke Gardeners' Fair

Cottesbrooke Gardeners' Fair 22-24 June c. Andrew Montgomery

Now celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Fair takes place from 22-24 June and is held in the stunning grounds of Cottesbrooke Hall in Northamptonshire. Not only is this a perfectly lovely way to spend a summer's day buying plants, but you can also meet the GARDENS ILLUSTRATED team - and take advantage of a great subscription offer.

 

DON'T MISS OUT 15% off RHS Chelsea designers' plants

Centaurea 'Jordy'

With the winners announced and medals awarded, here's your chance to get hold of some of the must-have plants starring in show gardens at the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Online plant retailer Crocus is offering readers a 15% discount.

Top designers Sarah Price and Arne Maynard have created stunning planting schemes for their gold award-winning gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, full of beautiful combinations and must-have plants.

Offer on Emma Bridgewater classic design

Sweet pea teapot from Emma Bridgewater

We've set up a reader offer with Emma Bridgewater for a 10% on all her ranges - including her classic sweet pea design, reintroduced to the range this summer.

This fresh sweet pea design is one of the delightful Emma Bridgewater classics reintroduced this season. It includes mugs, bowls, plates, jug and teapot, all UK-made. Readers can get a 10% discount and free P&P (on all her ranges) until 26 June. Go to Emma Bridgewater and use the code GARDENS10 for the discount.

 

 

Gardens Illustrated Arts & Crafts Garden Festival at Coombe Trenchard

Coombe Trenchard

Don't miss this exciting two-day garden festival celebrating the finest in gardening tradition, held in the grounds of the impressive Arts & Crafts house of Coombe Trenchard in rural Devon. Friday 1 and Saturday 2 June 2012, 10am-5.30pm

 

We are delighted to present this exciting two-day garden festival celebrating the finest in gardening tradition, held in the grounds of the impressive Arts & Crafts house of Coombe Trenchard in rural Devon.