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 November

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

Jim’s Garden Diary • This month, Jim Cable is replacing ravaged box hedging with Japanese holly, adding winter protection for half-hardy treasures, and planting hardneck garlic

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

The Big Chill

The Ultimate COLLECTION • The beautifully designed gardens at Borde Hill in West Sussex were assembled by plant collector and horticulturist Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke from 1893. His descendants are now planting around his choice specimens for multi-season appeal

The Party’s Just STARTED • For many gardens the season is already over, but Bourton House in the Cotswolds is upholding its reputation for late-season allure as a bevy of half-hardy and tender beauties get glammed up ready for the late show

The Time, THE PLACE • The sloping garden at 17th-century Culross Palace in Fife is one that has been put into context over the years, with planting developed to reflect its historic focus as a place to grow crops, dyes and medicines

LIGHT SHOW • At what was once a dull, dark, typically Victorian garden in Suffolk, the lights have been switched on by a gloriously bright and colourful array of carefully chosen trees, all selected by passionate dendrophile Jane Mann

For the Love OF TREES • Northamptonshire’s Thenford Arboretum is a labour of love, having been planted and developed by Lord and Lady Heseltine over the past 47 years to include a breathtaking selection of beautiful and unusual specimen trees

THE GLASS MENAGERIE • Curate a collection of flamboyant, tender and exotic plants that can handle the wildly fluctuating seasonal temperatures of a conservatory to make the most of this glamorously alluring space,

Fall Guys • Curator of the arboretum at Thorp Perrow, Faith Douglas draws inspiration from the changing seasons to recommend ten super trees for autumn colour

Crowning Glory • Versatile, evergreen and often viciously spiny, mahonia is the tough guy of the garden, its strong architectural presence offset by brilliant racemes or clusters of fragrant flowers. Fran Clifton of the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens presents her favourites

OUT LIKE A LION • At Norfolk’s Bressingham Gardens, autumn is the strongest season, waving out the year with a surge of colour. This is in no small part due to powerful planting combinations intended to fascinate at an often overlooked time of year

TRADE SECRETS: Sow Sweet Peas • Nothing says ‘summer’ like a sweet pea, and for vigorous, healthy, floriferous plants, it’s important to get them off to the best possible start. Here, Roger Parsons offers his expert advice on sowing technique and general care

Notes from PERCH HILL • In the last of four extracts adapted from her new book, A Year Full of Veg, Sarah Raven considers the rich pickings the vegetable patch continues to offer through autumn and winter

AN APPLE A DAY • There are more types of apple out there than you could possibly imagine, and at his organic fruit tree nursery in Shropshire, Tom Adams is working to identify and...