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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New Dorset Gardens • Join us on a four-day garden tour, hosted by innovative gardener Keith Wiley, to explore some of Dorset's most inspiring gardens of renown

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

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3 FOR THE GARDEN… • FLOWER PRESSES

DIARY: FEBRUARY

KITTED OUT • For keeping warm and cosy outdoors this season

February plants • In the first of a new series, Åsa Gregers-Warg of Beth Chatto's Plants & Gardens in Essex prioritises plants with dramatic winter foliage and early flowers

Places to visit • Åsa's recommendations for places to see seasonal plants at their best

THE CONSTANT GARDENER • Head gardener Benjamin Pope finds colourful stems and fragrant flowers an antidote to February's cold grip, but is savouring the month's stillness before the rush of spring jobs

GARDEN JOBS for February

RYAN HEALEY • As a horticulturist at RHS Garden Bridgewater, Ryan is helping to manage and develop areas within the garden's many woodland spaces

Rising to the challenge • Faced with a steeply sloping garden, Helen Thomas has come up with a design that enhances rather than fights the contours of the land

Collective effort • Jane Rowlinson's rare and notable snowdrop collection is thanks in part to a mutually supportive galanthophile community

A family affair • At their home in Hertfordshire, Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith are working together to create a unique project to promote gardening, creativity and health

DEBORAH EVANS • The heritage and landscape consultant on the challenges of recreating the past and why all gardens, even those of historic importance, need to evolve

DICENTRA • Low-maintenance and reliable with a long season of interest, dicentras are one of the easiest plants for shade. Plantsman Jimi Blake, who has a passion for woodland gardening, shares his favourites and explains how best to use them in shady beds

How to grow Dicentra

Enduring loves • Bex Partridge's dried-flower creations preserve the fleeting beauty of flowers, foliage and seedheads

Planting for prosperity • Many of the hyacinth cultivars in Alan Shipp's National Collection were once thought to be lost, but the man dubbed the ‘Noah of hyacinths’ is bringing them back into cultivation

Mix and match • Australian gardener Simon Rickard is inspired by the great gardens of Britain but, rather than slavishly copying them, he uses plants that will thrive in his plot in the Central Highlands of Victoria

Design • News, garden design insight and sourcebook

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OPEN TO NATURE • Californian landscape architect Scott Lewis has created an informal garden, open to the landscape, for two wildlife-loving artists

Plant display stands • Show off your pots and containers in dramatic style this spring

The London College of Garden Design • Inspiring courses for the garden professional

Scotland's Rural College • Scotland's Rural College offers a range of courses from NC level to postgraduate in subjects ranging from Horticulture to Garden and Greenspace Design.

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, the crossword, competition and Alice Vincent

Other books • What else to read this month, from a useful guide to botany to a celebration of Europe's most useless...