In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Gardens Illustrated

• DIG IN
  What’s new, what’s growing and what’s going on this month
• DIG IN
  What's new, what's growing and what's going on this month
• 3 FOR THE GARDEN…
  RIDE-ON MOWERS
• April plants
  As spring takes hold, Lowther’s head gardener Andrea Brunsendorf takes pleasure in the garden’s bright groundcover plants and an abundance of fragrant blossom
• May plants
  Head gardener Andrea Brunsendorf takes pleasure in the drifts of luminous flowers, lacy umbellifers and fragrant woodlanders that grace the garden in late spring
• KITTED OUT
  Our pick of the best accessories for visiting shows and gardens, come rain or shine
• KITTED OUT
  Stylish wear for working in the garden, whatever the weather
• TRY, TRY AGAIN
  The question of what to grow this year has Nigel Slater thinking back on past failures and hoping wildly for the future
• SHOW TIME
  Never mind Christmas; for Nigel Slater, the most wonderful time of the year is the third week of May, which means only one thing: the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
• The next chapter
  Now managed by the charity Perennial, The Laskett is entering a new phase, which in spring includes a wealth of tulips
• Romance of the present
  Drawing on the natural landscape as well as its industrial past, the new garden at Caisson House is a masterclass in modern country style
• MILLIE SOUTER
  Millie is currently a garden designer at Tom Stuart-Smith Studio and also head gardener of the Plant Library at the Serge Hill Project in Hertfordshire
• HANNAH MOORE
  With training at Beth Chatto’s and Wildegoose Nursery already under her belt, Hannah is currently an Elizabeth Hess Scholar at Tresco Abbey Gardens
• CAREX
  Subtle grass-like sedges are perfect for adding texture and beauty in challenging and shady spots in the garden
• EREMURUS
  Despite their reputation for being hard to grow and infuriatingly easy to kill, foxtail lilies are spectacular and desirable plants for sunny borders or gravel gardens with well-drained soil
• Park life
  A derelict brownfield site next to a former railway yard is now brimming with life as Manchester’s first new city park in a century
• URBAN OASIS
  Plants are an integral, all-encompassing part of this small, stacked live/work space in the city of Antwerp
• JOHN WYER
  The landscape designer on the art of winning arguments, cycling to China, changing people’s preconceptions and refusing to be pigeonholed
• Casual confidence
  Award-winning designer Jo Thompson offers new container-planting inspiration with three ideas for flower combinations for late spring
• Meadowlands
  Peter Clay, co-director of Crocus.co.uk, has been developing his garden and meadows at Brockhampton Cottage, on a sloping site in the Welsh Borders, for more than two decades. Here, he explains his yearning for a magnificent landscape carpeted with orchids, and how he has made that dream come true
• Natural selection
  British designer Jennifer Gay has transformed a neglected, ancient olive grove into a sublime, sustainable garden in Corfu
• Shady characters
  Two passionate plant enthusiasts have set up a new nursery specialising in rare and unusual plants for shade
• KAZUYUKI ISHIHARA
  The Japanese garden designer on Chelsea Flower Show nerves, and how coming from a city synonymous with war shaped his love of peaceful nature
• VISIONARY SPACES
  The gardens of the future are diverse and beautiful. We take a look at four boundary-pushing gardens - both private and public - around the world that are addressing sustainability and climate change with style
• Winds of change
  This intimate woodland-style garden, glorious in late spring, is as much the result of the forces of nature as its curator's guiding hand
• LEARNING TO LET GO
  Grower Charlie Ryrie details her personal journey from intensive flower farming to lower-maintenance gardening, adapting to life’s challenges
• UP AND TRENDING
  It's difficult to predict what the big trends will be at the Chelsea Flower Show each year, but we have trawled the garden designs and spoken to designers and growers to draw out the themes we think will take the spotlight at the 2024 show
• SHOW GARDEN GUIDES
  Discover the inspiration and thinking behind the designs of the top gardens at this year's show
• Design
  News, garden design insight and sourcebook
• IS CHELSEA SUSTAINABLE?
  Events on the scale of the Chelsea Flower Show are bound to come at an environmental cost. So what is the RHS doing to make the show more sustainable?
• FLIGHTS OF FANCY
  Designer Maïtanne Hunt had her mettle tested when she built this dramatic roof terrace, seven storeys up - with no lift - in Kensington, west London
• Garden rooms
  Add some glamour to your garden with these pods, huts, offices and studios
• BEHIND THE SCENES
  The Chelsea Flower Show may be the ultimate garden show, but it takes a lot of dedicated people working hard to bring it to fruition. Here we meet some of them
• WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF THE GREAT PAVILION?
  Exhibiting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is every plant nursery's dream, but the face of the Great Pavilion has changed noticeably over recent years. We look into what is going on under the awnings of the big white tent
• Flood-proof plants
  As our weather becomes wetter and wilder, flooding and waterlogging are becoming more frequent, so what should you plant to cope with a changing climate?
• DOWNTOOLS
  Book reviews, Q&A, the crossword and the big idea
• RELOCATION, RELOCATION, RELOCATION
  Once the show is over, the gardens must live on. Annie Gatti talks to designers about the challenges of moving their showpieces to permanent homes
• More than meets the eye
  Allison Sylvester's beautiful nature-led artworks require close observation – both in their making and in their appreciation
• Parasol bases
  Stay out of the sun in style with our picks of the best parasol bases
• ‘My guilty gardening secret? Not composting’
  In his new book, Your Outdoor Room, designer and TV presenter Manoj Malde is equipping us all with the tools to create a harmonious design for our gardens
• THE REVIEW
  Noel Kingsbury takes in a new book that looks at shrub communities around the world, and how we might begin to interpret them for garden and landscape use
• WE NEED A NEW NATURE
  In the first of a new series of personal opinion pieces, Noel Kingsbury shares his hopes for how gardeners might help to adapt to the post-climate change world
• 'I've still not cracked the common pitfall of sowing too much'
  Gardener, writer and TV presenter Rachel de Thame talks about her new book and the books on her shelves, how to attract wildlife to our gardens, and how her gardening style has evolved
• ARE 'WILDLIFE GARDENS' PASSÉ?
  Jo McKerr wonders if conventional ideas of wildlife-friendly gardens are old hat and it's now time to put nature at the forefront of our thinking on gardening