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Small gardens

Recommended plants and design inspiration for compact plots
Illustration of a showing a small garden planting plan
Garden design

Big ideas for small gardens

Magnolia 'Yellow Fever'
Trees

The best yellow magnolias for gardens of all sizes

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Plants

Making an entrance with container displays

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Front gardens

Stylish ideas to make the most of your front garden
Stewartia pseudocamellia
Trees

The best trees for front gardens

Photo: Claire Takacs
Garden design

Parking space vs front garden

Photo: Tim Graham/Getty Images
Garden design

Design solutions: Front gardens

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Materials

Hard-landscaping ideas to add structure and style to the garden
Limestone steps are a solution to coping with slopes. Wide steps create an elegant descent down a sloping garden
Garden design

How to cope with a sloping garden

Choosing a shed
Garden Equipment

Design solutions: Choosing a shed

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Garden design

Design solutions: Retaining walls and plantable structures

A metal gate designed by Cameron Mackintosh for his home in Somerset
Hard landscaping

Using metal in the garden

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Designing with plants

Soft-landscaping inspiration
shade-loving mosses, ferns and lichens
Garden design

How to make the most of shady corners

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

How to lay a hedge

Golden glow
Planting ideas

How to plan a dry garden plus plant combinations

Tips on how to make your garden feel mature
Garden design

How to age your garden

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Magazine

Take a look inside previous issues of Gardens Illustrated
In this mixed House Border, the red flowers of Rosa ‘Florence Mary Morse’ bring early colour alongside the white sprays of Persicaria x fennica ‘Johanniswolke’. The tall, slender annual corncockles are woven through the border plants, and, along with alliums and bronze fennel, help to unify the plantings and create a naturalistic scene.
Gardens

Summer planting at Malverleys: borders, layering and planning ahead

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Rural

Discover the modern cottage garden

Benton End in Suffolk, where the artist and gardener Cedric Morris and his partner Arthur Lett-Haines moved in 1940, is where Morris bred many of his beautiful and painterly coloured bearded irises
Plants

Benton irises: how to choose and grow them

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Magazine

Inside Gardens Illustrated magazine – The Plant Issue 2021

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