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Verbena bonariensis 'Lollipop'

How to grow verbena

Unsung garden heroes

Nominate your unsung garden hero

Batcombe House garden, designed by Libby Russell

Designer Libby Russell’s own garden at Batcombe House

Foster irises: Lucy Skellorn’s ancestor’s famed success in iris breeding

New lockdown garden competition to be judged by Alan Titchmarsh

How to use decking in the garden

Editor's highlights

One of Joe Hogan's woven artistic baskets

Basket weaving on the shores of Loch Na Fooey

Garden hero Mary Clear

Horticultural heroes Discover our list of unsung champions

Digitalis pupurea 'Gloxinioides'

The best plants for a cottage garden

Special Issue 2020

Gardens Illustrated’s Plant Issue 2020

Perfect plants for now

PLANTING INSPIRATION

Fuchsia ‘Prosperity’

The best fuchsias for your garden

Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'

100 beautiful and useful plants

Digitalis pupurea 'Gloxinioides'

The best plants for a cottage garden

Helianthus 'Ms Mars' (Sunflower)

The best summer flowers to plant

Eight stunning roses from a designer's garden

What to plant in an edible garden

Private Woodside garden designed by Surface Design Inc. California, USA.

Best plants for a meadow

Eryngium x zabelii

June flowers to plant

Poppies in a meadow

Expert tips for designing a meadow

Geranium Terre Franche

21 of the best hardy geraniums

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Home cooking recipes

RECIPES USING FRESH INGREDIENTS FROM THE GARDEN

Potatoes

Simple tuna and potato salad recipe

45 mins two to six people

Palermo artichokes

Tasty stuffed artichokes with peas and broad beans

50 mins Serves 8

Kale, spelt and chorizo big soup

Shallot tart tatin and kale chorizo soup recipe from Riverford

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Container displays

POTS OF STYLE FOR YOUR GARDEN

The finished container display from Ben Preston with persicaria

Container display Evergreen foliage and purple tones

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Stylish container display with succulents

Plant container display with fritillaries

Create a plant display with fritillaries for early summer

A woodland container display by Ben Preston

Pots of Style A container display with herb-paris and an orchid

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Summer

PLANTS AND MORE FOR THE SEASON

Cosmos bipinnatus 'Velouette'

The best cosmos to grow

Dahlia 'Honka Fragile'

Designers' favourite dahlias

Lathyrus odoratus ‘Matucana’

The best scented sweet peas

Fuchsia ‘Prosperity’

The best fuchsias for your garden

C. 'Sweet Scentsation'

Which late-flowering clematis to choose

Marina Christopher/Phoenix Perennials Nurseryman's Choice - September (23rd September 2015)

10 recommended plants for late-summer colour

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Inspiring gardens

THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S OUTDOOR SPACES

Andy Salter's plantsman's garden

A Kent garden inspired by Great Dixter’s borders

Bignor Garden, designed by Chris Moss

An enclosed garden with a natural pool in West Sussex

The Rectory - Conrad Batten

Painterly style garden design in a former rectory in Cornwall

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House plants

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GROWING INDOORS

Asparagus fern

Asparagus fern: great house plant companions

A mix of Dahlias and grasses are planted up into a greengrocer-style box

Planting ideas for late-summer container display

Phlebodium aureum or fern

Houseplants How to look after the blue star fern

Indoor plant pot

Best indoor pots to buy

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Alice Pattullo's illustration of Japan island Yakushima

Horticultural holiday

Japanese island of Yakushima and its unusual evergreen shrub

Garden design

DESIGN IDEAS FOR ALL YOUR GARDEN NEEDS

Limestone steps are a solution to coping with slopes. Wide steps create an elegant descent down a sloping garden

How to cope with a sloping garden

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Design ideas for a garden path

Erinus alpinus

How to make a rock garden

Garden design courses

How to build a garden office

Growing a garden that lasts

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Advice

WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT

Ollie Hutson harvesting Beetroot Cylindra

The Pig Hotel's kitchen garden

Clean your rusty tools with wire wool

How to clean rusty tools

Learn how to lay a hedge using traditional craftsmanship and hedge laying skills.

How to lay a hedge

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Kit

OUR PICK OF THE BEST GARDENING TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES

Chestnut hurdle

Garden Equipment

Edging for garden borders: the best

Dimmer option wall light

Best outdoor lighting for front gardens

Ula Maria's book Green

Gardening books

Book review Green, by Ula Maria

Yuri Garden Lounge Chair

Garden furniture: the best garden seats

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