The English Garden

Enjoy over 60 beautiful gardens a year with The English Garden. Every issue features country, city, cottage and coastal gardens, with advice on how to recreate them. Be inspired by articles written by the country's top garden designers and discover the best plant varieties for your garden, chosen by expert nurserymen and plantspeople.

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The English Garden

This Month • Our guide to plants, people, gardens and events, tasks and shopping in November

People to Meet • Introducing the gardeners and public figures we most admire in British horticulture

Out & About • Unmissable events, news and the very best gardens to visit this month

Things to Do • Battening down the garden’s hatches for winter, Jane Moore restrains herself from cutting back all the dead stems but finds space for potted spring bulbs

Beautiful & Useful • New plants, books, tools and creative designs, plus shopping inspiration

Snuggle Up

Self Portrait • After years of capturing beautiful gardens around the world, renowned photographer Richard Bloom turns the lens on his own Suffolk garden, where a relatively small space has been packed with wall-to-wall colour from selected trees and perennials for a truly vibrant autumnal show

Extra Time • In Hampshire, Helen Elks-Smith has designed a garden that’s a true celebration of autumn, combining late-flowering perennials, colourful tree foliage, sculptural seedheads and graceful grasses to deliver a vibrantly textural display that extends the season beautifully

True to FORM • When the 7th Lord Carrington took on Bledlow Manor in the Chilterns from his father, he was keen to re-energise the planting while staying faithful to the garden’s original formality, which is at its clearest in the chill of late autumn

Off Grid • Richard Williams was set to fill his square Surrey plot with a series of further squares. Thanks to the intervention of Nic Howard, he’s now embracing a softly curvaceous design, where concentric circles are filled with fountaining grasses and perennials

OLD MASTERS • An eye for art informs this mature Edinburgh garden. Best known for a summer show of rhododendrons, its painterly palette of glowing autumnal foliage, enlivened by selected sculptures, makes it a year-round masterpiece

Good All Rounders • Senior gardener at the Shugborough Estate Lizzie Pellowe recommends ten plants from the new Arcadia forest garden, each grown for its multiple uses

Fire Crackers • Blazing through the autumn gloom with their fiery foliage, Japanese maples put on a thrilling show – and one of the best places to see it is at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum

Hip, Hip, Hooray! • Jewel bright and filled with plump promise, rose hips provide colour when it’s rapidly fading elsewhere. In her rose-filled Cornish cottage garden, Beth Tarling is busily harvesting hips for indoor displays and delicious syrups

GOOD to GROW • Follow our grow-your-own series all through the year from the walled kitchen garden at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex, where head gardener Tom Coward and his team produce abundant edible crops

Golden Oldies • Heritage fruit trees have stood the test of time for good reason, offering hardiness, disease resistance and exceptionally tasty fruit that provides a change from the usual mainstream supermarket varieties

RIGHT TREE, RIGHT PLACE • Autumn and winter are the best seasons for planting trees. Philip Clayton recommends suitable options for specific locations that should thrive in your garden for many years to come

A SUNNY DISPOSITION • Embrace the light and blur the edges between indoors and out with a beautifully decorated conservatory, sun room or extension that enjoys views out to the garden

An Evergreen Legacy...