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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The English Garden

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

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 • As the season begins to change Jane Moore gets stuck into the satisfying process of sowing seed and moves her prickliest roses to a safer spot

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

Hello Sunshine!

Indoor Planters • In materials ranging from rustic terracotta to elegant brass, there are beautiful planters to suit every kind of home interior. Here, Natasha Goodfellow selects her six ‘top of the pots’

The Milky WAY • At Colesbourne Park, historic home of the galanthophilic Elwes family, snowdrops are everywhere, carpeting woodland walks in white with specialist varieties to be found throughout the ten-acre Cotswold garden, lifting the spirits of winter visitors

Between THE LINES • The confident axes of a classic Colvin & Moggridge design harbour magnificent trees, scented shrubs and sweeps of early spring bulbs at Upton Wold, known as ‘the hidden garden of the Cotswolds’

Banish the BLUES • For vibrant colour in the post-Christmas lull, look no further than the wonderful winter garden at Bodnant in North Wales, with plants carefully selected to lift the spirits and put on a show at the gloomiest time of year

Magnolia MAGIC • With staggering views stretching out across a magnolia-spangled Devonshire valley, in spring, Marwood Hill Gardens are a plantsperson’s kaleidoscopic dream, with choice plant selections spread over 20 masterfully planted acres

No Place Like HOME • The moated magnificence of Columbine Hall in Suffolk has provided the home of Hew Stevenson and his late wife Leslie Geddes-Brown, for over 30 years, and the one and only workplace of head gardener Kate Elliott, the 29 acres of garden and woodland becoming a place to realise all their long-held dreams

The Sweet Spot • Easton Walled Gardens in Lincolnshire is famous for its sweet peas, and owner Lady Ursula Cholmeley has ten fragrant cultivars to recommend

Making Scents • Hidden away in hedgerows, tiny purple Viola odorata has a perfume that really packs a punch. And after centuries of breeding, centred around the South West, there are now many delightful and equally fragrant cultivars to choose from in a range of colours

The Crocus King • This year marks 140 years since the publication of George Maw’s (1832–1912) seminal A Monograph of the Genus Crocus

GOOD to GROW • Follow our new grow-your-own series all through the year from the walled kitchen garden at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex, where head gardener Tom Coward and his team produce abundant edible crops

UPPING THE STAKES • Supporting plants, particularly herbaceous perennials, is a job it pays to get on top of early. With myriad ready-made options available, does it still make sense to make your own, and what sort of supports suit plants best?

The Good Life • Embrace wellness and reap the therapeutic rewards of a spa break in the comfort of your own garden by adding a sauna, pool or hot tub

Petal Power • An encounter with Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, set experienced milliner Anne Tomlin on the...