A Year in The English Garden - 9 Apr 2025
A month-by-month guide to creating your dream garden
October Piet Oudolf’s garden design restored at Yorkshire’s Scampston Hall; autumn colour from Cyclamen hederifolium.
June Matthew Childs’ Surrey garden is designed for total relaxation; creamy structural whorls of Phlomis russeliana.
March Devon’s Mothecombe House is awash with magnolias, camellias and bulbs; pretty spring blossom of Amelanchier lamarckii.
July The multi-layer gravel garden of Elmbridge Lodge in Surrey; starry flowers of Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia.
August A walled garden at Glenarm Castle in County Antrim; Hydrangea ‘Madame Emile Mouillère.
January Winter texture, colour and scent at Ivy Croft in Herefordshire; fiery Nandina domestica.
November Layered vistas at Attadale House in the Highlands; red-hipped Rosa moyesii ‘Geranium’.
February Early spring bulbs abound at Little Court in Hampshire; gorgeous huge-leaved bergenias.
May Nature leads the way at Highlands in East Sussex; lacy white flowerheads of Viburnum opulus.
September The picturebook Oxfordshire garden of Ham Court; fluffy pink Hylotelephium ‘Matrona’.
April Tulips at Chenies Manor in Buckinghamshire; gorgeous pink cherry, Prunus ‘Kanzan’.
December Long Barn in Kent, where Vita Sackville-West cut her teeth; lush green Arum italicum.
The Constant GARDEN
Cold COMFORTS
Plant of the Month
Perfect Partners
Things to Do
January Checklist
Instant UPLIFT
Instant UPLIFT
Plant of the Month
Perfect Partners
Things to Do
February Checklist
SET IN STONE
First BREATH
“I find gardens like this reassuring. A tad overgrown, familiar – clearly part of a muchloved family home”
Amelanchier lamarckii
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
March Checklist
The New OLD WAYS
The New OLD WAYS
“A garden needs to grow and change, but the new and the old traditions continue side by side here”
Prunus ‘Kanzan’
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
April Checklist
A GARDEN FOR ALL SEASONS
Planting for biodiversity
Words Unspoken
Viburnum opulus
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
May Checklist
The Great ESCAPE
The Great ESCAPE
Phlomis russeliana
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
June Checklist
Comfort ZONE
Self-seeding PLANTS
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
July Checklist
A PASSION Shared
A PASSION Shared
Hydrangea ‘Madame Emile Mouillère’
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
August Checklist
A Fine Art
A Fine Art
Painter’s PALETTE
Hylotelephium
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
September Checklist
Genius REVISITED
Genius REVISITED
New Perennial planting tips from Andy
Cyclamen hederifolium
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
Things to Do
October Checklist
Through VIEW
Through VIEW
Rosa moyesii
Perfect Partners
Plant of the Month
November Checklist
Things to Do
Where it BEGAN
Where it BEGAN
Box management
Arum italicum
Plant of the Month
Perfect Partners
Things to Do
December Checklist
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