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Our December issue is packed with wonderful winter gardens – including a new Piet Oudolf project – plus tips from Highgrove on creating topiary good enough for The King. Plus Nigel Slater on Christmas gifts; festive decor from the garden; and the top gardening books of the year.
- Five beautiful frosty gardens and winter planting inspiration from Piet Oudolf
- Tips on topiary from The King’s gardeners at Highgrove
- Our bumper Christmas gift guide and natural decoration ideas
- Win the top 12 gardening books of the year
- Dan Pearson’s favourite plants for December
- Meet Mahonia - an unfussy evergreen with winter flowers
- Why the era of the ‘instant garden’ is over
- Nigel Slater on the art of gift giving
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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.
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