June 2024

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

The definitive guide to stylish gardens

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Contributors
Benjamin Pope Head gardener Benjamin chooses the best summer alliums, page 54. “It's great to see these later alliums making their mark in our summer gardens, enriching displays with flower and foliage.” Matthew Biggs Matthew recommends 30 excellent
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Welcome
Summer is finally here and we have decided to celebrate its arrival this issue by bringing you six glorious gardens to enjoy. First, we visit the iconic rooms of Sissinghurst Castle at peak rose-blooming time (page 28), and get to look behind the sce
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EDITORIAL Editor Stephanie Mahon Art director David Grenham Deputy art editor Niki Goss Production editor Juliet Giles Digital editor Daisy Bowie-Sell Commissioning content editor Veronica Peerless Content producer Molly Blair Botanical adviser Dr Ja
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Dig In
Since its launch in 2013, British Flowers Week – the annual celebration of seasonal, British-grown flowers – has been organised by New Covent Garden Flower Market. This year, however, it is passing the baton to Flowers from the Farm, the association
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What To Do In… June
8 Royal Windsor Flower Show Visit Windsor Great Park for a day celebrating gardening, nature and cookery, opened by honorary president Alan Titchmarsh. Saturday 8 June, 10am-6pm. £21. Windsor Great Park SL4 2BS. rwrhs.com 10-14 A Celebration of Flowe
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3 For The Garden…
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June Plants
A strong-growing deciduous climber, reaching up to 12m, even on a northfacing wall. It produces an incredible abundance of glittering white star-shaped flowers that are slightly fragrant. This group of clematis does not require routine pruning; but,
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Summertime at Sissinghurst
The vernal equinox may be the signal for the garden to wake up, but the slow burn of April and May is only fully ignited with the blaze of June. Soaring spikes of lupins begin to show colour, peony buds rupture revealing their crinkled petals, cow pa
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Sissinghurst At Sunset With Troy Scott Smith
As well as experiencing the famous White Garden and Rose Garden at their peak flowering time, our guests will have the chance to see the new Delos garden created with designer Dan Pearson, the Cottage Garden and Orchard all to themselves when the gar
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Faith In The Future
What A biodiverse rural retreat featuring a meadow and wildlife pond and an aromatic gravel garden. Where Wiltshire. Size Half an acre. Soil Shallow lime-rich soil with a loamy texture. Climate Temperate maritime. Hardiness zone USDA 9a. Chapel House
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Heaven Scent
June, and the garden is at its most sensuous, inviting – no, imploring me – to look, touch and sniff. It is a wonderful month for smelling the garden. I do this first thing in the morning and again in the evening when everything is at its olfactory b
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Maggie Tran
Earliest garden memory My grandmother's council house garden was my first connection with growing. It was small but she had roses trained all over the walls, and every single patch of the heavy clay soil was jam-packed with Asian vegetables. I don't
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Summerflowering Alliums
What Allium is a genus of more than 1,000 species that include cultivated onion, garlic, shallots, leeks and chives. The summer-flowering species featured here are largely ornamental plants, sometimes known as ornamental onions. Season June to late A
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How To Grow Summer-flowering Alliums
• Alliums are relatively easy to look after and can be reliably perennial if grown correctly. They perform best in freedraining conditions, as they dislike sitting wet in winter and during their summer dormant period, so avoid heavier clay soils. Nat
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Fresh Approach
What Private contemporary-style garden that forms part of a larger walled garden. Where Suffolk. Size 650 square metres. Soil Sandy but generally good garden soil (the site used to be a managed productive walled garden). Climate Temperate, with occas
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Annie Guilfoyle
For someone whose life is built around the creation of beautiful gardens, Annie Guilfoyle has remarkably itchy feet. She teaches several prestigious garden design courses in this country, including at West Dean and Great Dixter, but also lectures as
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30 Plants With Interest All Year
1 ECHINACEA PALLIDA This exquisite native of the North American prairies, the most dainty of blooms, displays its balletic elegance with slender, pale-pink ray florets that are held horizontally, then gradually droop groundward and flutter in the bre
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Perfect Harmony
What A garden of two halves, one wild and the other designed. Where Shropshire. Size Three quarters of an acre. Soil Neutral clay soil. Climate High rainfall and partly exposed site. Hardiness zone USDA 8. One person's love can be another's loathing.
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Colour Therapy
What Naturalistic perennial garden with exuberant use of colour. Where Victoria, Australia. Size One-and-a-half-acre garden as part of a seven-acre property. Soil Clay. Climate Temperate, with an average rainfall of 710mm. Hardiness zone USDA 10a. An
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Steps To Success
The owners of this Cotswold property had recently retired and downsized from their 18th-century dower house by converting their former barn and other outbuildings into a new home. The house is arranged around a 16m x 12m courtyard, originally a recta
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Design
Award-winning landscape designer Jo Thompson has been awarded the highest accolade, the Grand Gold Award, at the GBA Shenzhen Flower Show in China. Her show garden, I Live with Nature, included a curved brick pavilion at the centre, which was created
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Recommended Reads This Month
by Ben Newell Dorling Kindersley, £20, ISBN 978-0241668757 Ben Newell, aka @worcesterterrariums, has amassed more than three million followers on Instagram since giving up work as a postman and devoting himself to terrariums full time. He provides si
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‘No One Ever Said Gardening Was A Job Option’
What is your new book about? It is about my garden – the first I've ever owned. I moved in in early 2023, and BBC Gardeners’ World filmed it. Then BBC Books asked me if I would document the first year of how to tackle a new garden. Initially, I felt
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In Suburbia
BEHIND THE PRIVET HEDGE: RICHARD SUDELL, THE SUBURBAN GARDEN AND THE BEAUTIFICATION OF BRITAIN by Michael Gilson Reaktion Books, £16.95, ISBN 978-1789148602 Everyone is an activist now. At least, that is how it seems to me, as so many artists, celebr
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Crossword
1 Genus of monk's-hood and wolfsbane – Naomi cut badly (8) 6 Encouraged … what the successful cutting did? (6) 9 Knar in tree bark noticed (4) 10 ___ Pagels, German plant breeder (died 2007) – terribly stern! (5) 11 See 3 down 12 Enclosed eg like Mot
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Customise Your Plants
I can think of no greater way to be truly connected to your garden than to weave yourself into the ecology of the space, by breeding plants that respond both to you and to your garden. It's such a simple idea to grow a garden that responds to you as

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