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

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 • In August, Jim Cable is renovating overly pruned apple trees, holiday-proofing plants for house and garden and planting autumn-flowering Mediterranean bulbs

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

Ahoy There! • Summer holidays are always a treat, but if you can’t escape to the seaside this year, why not try styling your garden as a nautical paradise? A beach theme is timeless: tasselled parasols, weathered driftwood, showstopping shells – and no need to worry about sandy toes! Milos lounger, £387.50. Tel: 0330 3332123; coxandcox.co.uk

Nature Finds a Way • Richard Mabey is one of our foremost nature writers, having given us influential books such as Flora Britannica and Weeds. In The Accidental Garden, he considers his own garden, in which nature’s dynamic processes are key

A PASSION Shared • It’s the delighted reaction from visitors to Glenarm Castle that inspires the Earl and Countess of Antrim to continue their hard work in the restored and replanted walled garden that is the beating heart of this popular County Antrim visitor attraction

The Beat Goes On • Applying skills from her previous successful gardens, Jenny Woodall repeats themes, plants and colours at Kettle Farm Cottage in Wiltshire to create a vibrant, rhythmic scheme that reaches an abundant summer peak

SHE WANTED A GARDEN • When the time came at Northamptonshire’s Middleton House to get rid of the pony paddock and reimagine its unprepossessing surroundings, horse-mad novice gardener Donna Cooper had just one simple request that would set her on the path of a life-enhancing journey

Fruitful FUTURES • Tending the historical gardens of National Trust-owned Acorn Bank for generations to come, Heather Birkett applies planet-friendly techniques to its every aspect, including the spectacular and prolific orchard

Times Change • Bickham House in Devon has been in the same family since the 17th century, and its garden is an established gem, but owner Julia Tremlett has never been one to rest on her laurels

Time Stands Still • Instil a singular sense of the past in even the most contemporary garden, fusing different eras with antiques, reproductions and vintage gardenalia. We have expert advice on where to look, what to buy and how to buy it

Directory • A selection of the best places to source antiques, reproductions, salvage and a range of gardenalia

Juice from a Stone • Discover the best stone fruits for our changing climate, with suggestions from Paula Fleming, orchard gardener at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire.

New Wave • Gary Leaver, custodian of the National Collection of Sanguisorba, tells Louise Curley why these versatile, arching perennials deserve their moment in the spotlight

A STEP AHEAD • Influential cut flower growers are always ahead of the curve: when they highlight a breathtaking flower, demand for it leaps. Here, a selection of growers reveal the next floral must-haves

City Limits • Tucked away in a formerly industrial setting, surrounded by...