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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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Current issue

Gardens Illustrated October 2025 cover

This issue is packed with glorious gardens, fiery foliage and the best October plants. Plus advice on gardening in raised beds and containers, planting tulips that will come back year after year and the little-known fruit tree we should all be growing. 

  • Five beautiful gardens, including a Piet Oudolf courtyard on Nantucket, a stunning Highlands landscape and a lawn transformed into a garden of rooms
  • Gorgeous autumn-flowering bulbs to grow
  • Expert's pick of best tulips to grow that will come back every year in the garden
  • Advice on designing gardens of raised beds and containers, from balconies to patios

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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

Digital editions

April's Gardens Illustrated 2025
March's Gardens Illustrated

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Back issues

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