Gardens Illustrated Magazine - June 2024

In this issue

Plantsperson’s favourites
Head gardener Andrea Brunsendorf chooses her top ten plants for June.

Perfect harmony
How rosarian Michael Marriott and TV producer Rosie Irving discovered the secret to sharing a single plot amicably, despite their different ideas on how to garden.

Summertime at Sissinghurst

Ensuring Sissinghurst’s famous roses look fabulous throughout the season is one of the many tasks keeping head gardener Troy Scott Smith and his team busy right now

7 mins

HEAVEN SCENT

As summer adds a new dimension to his garden, Nigel Slater reflects on the rewards of planting for perfume

4 mins

Faith in the future

Marian Boswall's contemporary design for the garden of a former chapel respects the property's history while looking to the future

4 mins

SUMMERFLOWERING ALLIUMS

Loved for their showy spheres, alliums have long been stalwarts of late spring, but now new introductions are extending the party through summer

5 mins

FRESH APPROACH

Colm Joseph’s design for this new garden, which surrounds a modern house within a heritage setting, uses clever planting to give a historic site a contemporary feel

3 mins

ANNIE GUILFOYLE

The garden polymath on the pleasures of passing on knowledge, the rewards of close observation and the circuitous route towards grounding her itchy feet

3 mins

PERFECT HARMONY

Rosarian Michael Marriott and TV producer Rosie Irving have very different ideas on gardening, but they have discovered the secret to sharing a single plot amicably

6 mins

30 plants with interest all year

These hard-working plants provide several seasons of interest in your garden through flowers, fruit, foliage, bark and even spring shoots

10+ mins

Colour therapy

Ann-Maree Winter's joyful Australian garden became a place of solace and nurture in hard times

3 mins

STEPS TO SUCCESS

Enclosed within a rustic barn conversion, this courtyard garden contrasts riotous Mediterranean-inspired gravel planting with clean lines and a reflective pool

5 mins

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Gardens Illustrated Magazine Description:

Gardens Illustrated features the best gardens, plants and designers around the world, making it a must for the discerning gardener.Published 12 times a year, it offers an irresistible mix of beautiful gardens and must-have plants. With stunning photography and the world's best garden writing, it offers you information and insights you won't find elsewhere.