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All the latest features from Gardens Illustrated magazine
How a designer swapped boring lawns for airy and elegant planting in this Oxfordshire garden
Designer Katie Guillebaud has used a mix of soft grasses and naturalistic planting for this garden in rural Oxfordshire.
What it's like to be a gardener in a world-famous Piet Oudolf garden
Horticulture manager Erin Monda reveals what it's like to work in a garden designed by Piet Oudolf. Discover nine more gardeners' stories in our November 2026 issue.
Garden events and festivals to go to this year: all the best tours, workshops, exhibitions and more for 2026
All the big names in one place. Here's our guide to the gardening calendar's biggest and best gardening events for the year ahead
Bonfire night is fun, but don't forget to protect your pets and garden wildlife
Our tips on keeping garden wildlife and pets safe on Guy Fawkes night
Hedgehogs are in big trouble right now. Do this one thing to help
Advice from experts on how to help hedgehogs in the garden.
10 plants that thrive beneath trees - according to an expert designer
Designer Ashleigh Aylett shares her favourite perennials to grow in a woodland garden.
‘I have no discipline when it comes to buying plants’ - meet horticulturist Jac Semmler
Australian horticulturist and director of the Super Bloom plant practice Jac Semmler on planting for the seasons and her love of deserts
How one planting designer created a stunning green roof with year-round interest – on top of his cabin
Planting designer Tony Spencer, aka The New Perennialist, explains how he created his Canadian garden and exciting new alvar-inspired green roof in the wilds of Ontario
The garden pests worth worrying about - and the ones you should learn to love
We dig into 8 garden pests and tell you which ones to worry about and which ones you can leave alone
Gothic plants for Halloween: these are the plants that could help to spookify your garden
Discover some of the blackest plants, just in time for Halloween
Make scary apples for Apple Day and Halloween
Whether it's for Apple Day on October 21 or Halloween, these scary apples are an excellent thing to create with the whole family. Photographs Andrew Montgomery
The weirdest, scariest pumpkins and gourds to grow and how to grow them
Clark Lawrence, an American living in the heart of Italy’s pumpkin province, loves growing different cultivars of pumpkins and ornamental gourds for their sweet flavours and fabulous looks.
Discover Austria's world of pumpkin oil
In a sunny corner of southern Austria, pumpkins are grown for the delicious and fragrant oil yielded by their seeds, an oil now celebrated for its healthy properties. Words by Jonathan Gibbon
Pumpkin seeds | What to do with your pumpkin innards
Carving isn't the only thing you could be doing with your pumpkin this Halloween. Here's a few other suggestions on how not to waste your pumpkin
The best pumpkin patches to visit for Halloween 2026, from South West England to Scotland
Tick off this autumn bucket list essential with a visit to one of these brilliant pumpkin patches for Halloween
How a Norwegian gardener created a stunning garden on top of barren rock
On an island off the Norwegian coast, Mariann Gundersen has magically transformed a once-barren rock into an extraordinary prairie-style garden for her summer house
Climate change means we can now grow a wider range of nuts in the UK - here's how
Nuts are coming back into fashion for gardens, as a warming climate is widening the species available for the UK and bringing bumper crops
We transformed our garden to host a glorious September wedding – here are the plants we chose
Designer Isabel Bannerman details how she and her husband Julian prepared their new garden at Ashington Manor for a September peak
"One sniff and I am 8 years old again": how Nigel Slater created his dream orchard for delicious summer desserts
After losing a bumper crop last year,Nigel Slater may be rowing back on his orchard ambitions, but an apple tree can still transport him back to his childhood
I've saved hundreds of pounds on fruit and veg by growing my own – and you can too, says garden designer Jack Wallington
Growing fruit and veg doesn’t have to mean giving up on beauty. You can have a designer garden and eat it, says Jack Wallington
"A lot of people hope things will go back to how they were in the Nineties. They won't": Caitlin Moran on how to become more hopeful
Journalist Caitlin Moran on her new book and what she’d really love to ask Paul McCartney
