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Omved Gardens in north London

A diverse eco habitat in a corner of north London

Dan Pearson's garden in lockdown

Designers during lockdown

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Perfect Airbnbs with gardens

The best plants for August

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Editor's highlights

Bury Court

Gardens to visit

Gardens to visit in August

Gardens Illustrated's July cover

July’s Gardens Illustrated

Laura Mellor at West Dean

Meet the gardeners

Laura Mellor on being a therapist and retraining at West Dean

Matthiola incana 'Lucinda Red'

Colour Red flowers for the garden

Garden entertaining

INSPIRATION FOR WARM SUMMER NIGHTS

Garden party

Everything you need for a garden party

An outdoor cinema set up in a domestic garden complete with snack trolley, fire pit and deck chairs to help with the entertainment

How to make an outdoor cinema in your garden

Somma Fire Pit

The best fire pits

Home cooking recipes

RECIPES USING FRESH INGREDIENTS FROM THE GARDEN

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Three classic plum and almond tart recipes

Garden designer Cleve West shares recipes cooked on an outdoor fire on his allotment garden

Recipes for outdoor eating

Root ginger

Ginger beer recipe

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Perfect plants for now

PLANTING INSPIRATION

Echinacea 'Roze Rood'

Perfect perennial plants

Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’

Orange plants for the garden

Rob Handy's forest garden in Somerset

How to make a forest garden

Helianthus 'Ms Mars' (Sunflower)

The best summer flowers to plant

How to train fruit trees

100 beautiful and useful plants

Anacamptis pyramidalis, (Pyramidal Orchid)

How to identify wildflowers

Gladiolus 'Sylvia'

The best plants for August

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Temptation'

Veronicastrum: how to grow and which to plant

Salvia 'Amistead'

The best bee friendly plants

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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

Yuri Garden Lounge Chair

Garden furniture: the best garden seats

Dahlia 'Honka Fragile'

Designers' favourite dahlias

The American Museum and Garden in Bath

10 of the best museum gardens to visit

A hand holding soil

Compost guide

Cosmos bipinnatus 'Velouette'

The best cosmos to grow

Bury Court

Gardens to visit

Gardens to visit in August

See more summer ideas

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Inspiring gardens

THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S OUTDOOR SPACES

Martin and Nicola Henderson's urban garden

An urban garden redesigned by Cassandra Crouch

Gateway with grasses in Alison Jenkins' garden

Alison Jenkins’ beautiful and sustainable Cotswold garden

James Alexander Sinclair's Green Rise

James Alexander Sinclair’s garden Green Rise in Oxfordshire

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House plants

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GROWING INDOORS

Asparagus fern

10 of the best bathroom plants

Kalanchoe houseplant

Houseplants Caring and propagating kalanchoe

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

DeliVita Pizza Oven

The best pizza ovens for the garden

Stainless Steel Hand Trowel

Garden Equipment

Best garden hand trowels

Perfect gardening knives

Garden Equipment

The best gardening knives for pruning and more

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