Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Widely regarded as the Vogue of the gardening press, Gardens Illustrated aims to inspire you with an eclectic and international editorial mix of remarkable places, plants and people. With superb photography, authoritative journalism and exceptional design, this award-winning magazine is a style bible for garden designers, garden lovers and enthusiasts alike.

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DIG IN • What’s new, what’s growing and what’s going on this month

WHAT TO DO IN… MARCH

3 FOR THE GARDEN… • POTTING BENCH BRUSHES

March plants • In the first of a new monthly series, Lowther Castle’s head gardener Andrea Brunsendorf chooses the ten plants for March that bring her joy

KITTED OUT • Get growing this season with our selection of tools and equipment for early spring

The working year at Sissinghurst • In 1930, the writer Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat husband Harold Nicolson bought an old farm in Kent and set about creating a garden that has become one of the best loved and most visited in the world. In this new series, Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith takes us through what he and his team are doing, and enjoying, each season

SPRING TASKS • March can be unpredictable and cruel. At one moment, the flooding of sap-swelling buds and unfurling leaves feels like spring, and in the next a blanket of snow carried on searing cold winds from the near continent can cover the garden like a duvet, plunging it back into winter. Flexibility is key. I have several tasks ‘on the go’ at any one time and freely switch between them if required to do so by a change in the weather.

GOLDEN WONDERS • Our new columnist Nigel Slater on the amazement he still feels at the arrival of flowering bulbs in spring

WITHOUT WATER • Jo Wakelin has transformed a dry, rural paddock into an exciting new water-resilient garden with no irrigation and plants from all over the world

WILL TOMSON • As director at Sheffield-based design studio Creative Cultivation, Will designs and creates sustainably built wildlife gardens and natural swimming ponds

BERGENIA • Elephant’s ears are low-maintenance, easy-going evergreen perennials that will brighten up the early spring garden with their colourful booms

How to grow Bergenia

VÉRONIQUE MURE • The French botanist who is championing naturalistic gardening, on the importance of preserving ecosystems and ensuring plants have a living soil

DOWN THE GARDEN PATH • Journeys both physical and metaphorical are at the heart of Jackie and John Copping’s Essex garden

Seasonal flair • Try your hand at these three fresh designs with flowers and foliage to celebrate the arrival of spring

Bowls of beauty • Magnolias are the show stoppers of early spring and there is nowhere better to see them than Borde Hill in West Sussex

Green power • Three new rooftop gardens designed by Andy Sturgeon have transformed one of London’s most iconic buildings

Growing for gold • Drawing on a long heritage of daffodil breeding in Northern Ireland, Esker Farm Daffodils now finds its bulbs are in demand from Narcissus obsessives from around the world

Design • News, garden design insight and sourcebook

NARROW ESCAPE • A small, shaded, city garden has been transformed into a verdant urban oasis filled with trees, climbers and perennials

Mini greenhouses • Extend the season without losing garden space with these small glasshouses

FRESH PICKS • We asked expert plantspeople, designers and gardeners which brand new and recently introduced plants they are excited about growing this year

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, Q&A, the crossword and Alice Vincent

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