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Every issue of Gardens Illustrated is filled with the world’s most beautiful gardens and insights from top designers and plantspeople. We publish 13 issues a year – why not subscribe and be the first to find out about our exclusive reader events and garden holidays? Plus you can subscribe to our weekly newsletter and follow us on TwitterPinterestFacebook and Instagram.

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May's Gardens Illustrated

Our bumper May issue is bursting with ideas for late spring, from the best plants to grow to gorgeous gardens to be inspired by. Plus everything you need to know about the Chelsea Flower Show, including the show gardens, trends and the latest ideas.

  • A romantic new English-style garden in Somerset
  • Chelsea Flower Show special: the trends, gardens and people behind the scenes
  • Top container-planting ideas from designer Jo Thompson
  • A magnificent orchid-studded meadow garden in the Welsh Borders
  • How to grow foxtail lilies
  • Urban oasis: a tiny wisteria-filled city courtyard
  • Rachel de Thame on how her gardening style has evolved
  • A captivating woodland garden for late spring
  • Nigel Slater on what he really thinks about Chelsea

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Special edition 

A Year of Plants

A year of plants is a beautiful, comprehensive guide to the best flowers, shrubs, trees, bulbs and foliage plants for colour and interest in every season. This new edition for 2024 contains more than 240 plants, divided into the key growing seasons of spring, early summer, late summer, autumn and winter.

Chosen by expert head gardeners and leading plantspeople, this special edition is a treasure trove of amazing plant picks to inspire you, whatever the size, style or soil of your garden.

Order today by clicking if you are in the UK here or here if you are in Europe, Northern Ireland or Rest of the world here

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