Roses
Elevate your garden with the best climbing plant supports of 2024
Give your plants the support they need to help them flourish in the garden. Here are a few of the best wall trellis designs for climbing plants in 2024
Top 10 most romantic gardens to visit with your loved one
Lose your heart in one of the world's most romantic gardens. Garden writer Anna Pavord picks ten of her favourite gardens to visit that will sweep you off your feet.
A guide to pruning roses
Discover how to prune all types of roses including shrub, climbing and rambling roses in our guide from plant expert John Hoyland. Photographs by Gavin Kingcome.
The principles of pruning
An essential gardening skill is pruning. Here's the initial principles of cutting back and pruning to maintain healthy-looking, prolifically flowering or beautifully shaped trees, shrubs and perennials. Words John Hoyland, photographs Gavin Kingcombe
Winter interest | Top roses for rosehips
A rosehip is the 'fruit’ of the rose, coming after the summer flowers and
offering vibrant colour in the winter garden. Discover the top roses to grow for rosehips and how to care for them to get the best display.
Roses from Sissinghurst: 15 of the best
Sissinghurst Castle is famous for its roses. Discover the rose cultivars that Vita Sackville-West grew there and find out more about them with head gardener Troy Scott-Smith. Photographs Rachel Warne.
Garden border ideas | Romantic flower border: download our planting plan
A flower border planting plan, perfect for a cottage garden created by award-winning garden designer Jinny Blom. Illustration by Hannah McVicar
26 of the best scented flowers
Choose scented flowers to give your garden extra appeal. Here's 26 favourites to give you fragrance right through the seasons
The life and work of David Austin Senior
Eminent rosarian David Austin Senior died on Tuesday 18 December at his home in Shropshire, aged 92. This interview by Francesca Greenoak took place in 2002 for issue 78 of Gardens Illustrated, and gives a small insight to Austin's incredible life and work breeding world-famous roses
Garden border ideas | How to create a tonal border from garden design expert, Arne Maynard
The borders at Cottesbrooke Hall are made up of pale pinks, deep purples and icy blues. Garden designer Arne Maynard shares some of the plants that make up the stunning borders, grouping them together in colour palettes.
Martha Stewart's top tips for a successful garden
We visit writer, TV personality and garden enthusiast Martha Stewart's private garden. Here she gives her top tips for creating a successful garden and recommends some of the best gardens to visit in the USA.
Tips for combining perennials and roses
The Rose Labyrinth in the Walled Garden at Coughton Court in Warwickshire, cleverly combines roses and perennials. Here we take a closer look at the plant combinations
Historic and wild, the rose garden at Morville Hall
Morville Hall in Shropshire has an impressive collection of romantic and historic wild roses in the Dower House garden. Take a look at this inspirational garden and find tips on how to maintain a wild rose garden from Katherine Swift who created the garden