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.

Welcome

The English Garden

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

Raymond’s favourite gardens

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

Things to Do • Keep up to date in the garden with our monthly guide to key gardening tasks from Troy Scott Smith, head gardener at Iford Manor

Local fruit tree varieties to try

October checklist • Reinvigorate lawns and tidy up perennial borders

Nature to Note • The wonder of wildlife in the garden and countryside this month

Harvest Festival • Pieces for home and garden to celebrate the season’s autumnal colours and abundant produce

Shed Chic • As the chillier days and nights draw in, create a cosy and practical garden retreat

The Virtuoso GARDENER • Griselda Kerr’s book may be called The Apprehensive Gardener, to reflect her steep learning curve, but her garden at The Dower House in Derbyshire is the work of a bold and confident plantswoman

SEASONAL spectacle • At The Dower House, autumn is welcomed by a range of plants chosen for high-impact flowers

Dressed to IMPRESS • Turning her eye for fashion to The Old Rectory in Northamptonshire, owner Kate Toller has used signature colours to dress beds and borders, rescuing the space from encroaching wilderness to create a stylish, balanced garden of tranquil delights

Kate’s ADVICE • Tips on creating a stylish and well-designed garden

The Good LIFE • Seized by a 1970s enthusiasm for self-sufficiency, Christine and Ian Davies have expanded their Surrey garden over the decades to fulfil a passion for crops. Alongside this, a relaxed style of perennial planting has developed, reaching its mellow peak in autumn

A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY • When Mark and Sarah Firth decided to build a holiday rental in the grounds of their rural Leicestershire home, they turned to Oakwrights for a sensitive and characterful oak-framed build

Earthly DELIGHTS • The garden designed by Matthew Wilson at Acomb High House in Northumberland ticked a verdant lawn and potager off the owners’ wish list, while its dreamy Monet Garden has made it a source of joy

A Beating HEART • East Lothian’s Broadwoodside is a bucolic dream of a garden and a beloved family home, developed from dilapidation over 20 years by Robert and Anna Dalrymple, the warm colours of both buildings and planting reflecting the love that has been poured into it

After Party • Scampston Walled Garden’s head gardener Andy Karavics chooses ten plants that look good in autumn and add structural interest as they fade

Under the Radar • Despite its reputation, low-growing, unassuming cotoneaster is a hero plant with year-round interest

Splendour in the Grass • At the Sussex Prairie Garden, Paul and Pauline McBride cultivate a range of grasses, but panicum are among the easiest and the most beautiful

Perfect Panicum • Paul and Pauline McBride share their experience of cultivating this easygoing grass

Cocktail Hour • Experts Angel Collins, Arthur Parkinson and Lady Ursula Chomeley present their signature recipes for mixing up bulbs in borders, containers and meadows in autumn, to create delectably sophisticated combinations the following spring

Angel’s Bejwelled Border • Bulb quantities for a 12m x 3m border

Beds & Borders • Garden...