Restoration & Specialist Crafts

Top speakers champion their favourite new gardens in a lively debate that looks at our future garden heritage

Gardens Illustrated’s annual lecture takes place during Chelsea Flower Show week. This year designers Andy Sturgeon, Dan Pearson and Cleve West discussed the current trends in planting and design. Now you can listen to the event as a podcast.

There are still plants in the garden flowering their hearts out as autumn arrives. John Hoyland extols the virtues of Parahebe 'Snow Clouds', plus gives ideas of places to visit to see plants at their seasonal best.

Get ready for the Big Bulb Plant on 1 October, when we're encouraged to join community planting activities aimed at brightening up our shared surroundings. If you're in London that day there's FREE bulbs to be had at a special bulb event at Westfield shopping centre.

Now is the time to celebrate English apples. The season’s crop is in full swing so you’ve every reason to buy British – and more importantly now is your chance to try some of the less well-known cultivars, but no less tasty, growing in orchards around the country – many unique to their location.

Now is the perfect time to visit garden at Sussex Prairies with its mass plantings of late-summer perennials and grasses. On 4 September the gardens host a special plant fair with the chance to buy some more unusual plants from visiting nurseries - as well as works from artists and craftsmakers.

The Victorian walled garden at National Trust propery Tyntesfield in North Somerset is in need of urgent repairs before the winter sets in. The garden is one of just a few kitchen gardens to have been in continuous cultivation of over 100 years - but now the glasshouses, potting sheds and brick walls are dangerously vulnerable.

Be part of a landmark cultural gathering held in Italy that brings together international thoughts on garden design, architecture, ecology, art and education to promote a more sustainable and integrated use of the landscape.

Learn how to create a stunning tropical garden in our readers' day masterclass at Great Dixter - 26 September 2011.

If you are passionate about gardening, love beautiful plants and garden accessories, then your gardening season isn’t complete without a visit to Cottesbrooke Hall Plant Finders Fair in Northamptonshire, held in association with Gardens Illustrated.