Gardens Illustrated - June 2025

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Room for more view Designer
Colm Joseph has created
a Suffolk garden that makes
the most of the wide vistas
surrounding a new build
52 Meeting of minds Tom StuartSmith worked with architect
Ptolemy Dean to bring unity to
the garden of a 15th-century
house and barn
66 Modern twist The traditional
English country garden gets
a contemporary update at this
renovated Oxfordshire cottage

June plants

A glorious Scotch rose, an impressive climber and a delicately scented evening primrose are among the early summer highlights for designer and plantsman Dan Pearson

5 mins

ROOM FOR MORE VIEW

For this Suffolk garden, designer Colm Joseph has created spaces that link the geometry of the new-build house to the surrounding vistas of fields and trees beyond

5 mins

NOT SITTING COMFORTABLY

Why worry about not finding time to sit and smell the roses, asks Nigel Slater, if you get more pleasure from deadheading them?

4 mins

HARDY SALVIAS

These popular, high-impact summer flowers come in a wide range of forms and colours and are designer favourites as well as magnets for bees and butterflies

4 mins

ANNA McLOUGHLIN

Anna, a landscaper with Landform Consultants, loves to feel immersed in the abundance of colourful blooms of cottage-garden style plantings

2 mins

MEETING OF MINDS

Landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith has worked closely with architect Ptolemy Dean to create a garden that unifies a 15th-century house and barn

5 mins

Out of the blue

From her Derbyshire home, artist Sophie Cook brings her trained horticultural eye to the Victorian art of cyanotype photography

3 mins

MODERN TWIST

The traditional English country garden gets a contemporary update at this renovated cottage in the Cotswolds

3 mins

SHEILA DAS

The new head of gardens and parks at the National Trust on the wonders of soil, the generosity of the gardening community and why cabbages will always blow her mind

3 mins

Beautiful chaos

In his experimental garden in south Essex, John Little is prioritising habitat over planting, without compromising on aesthetics

3 mins

Out of this world

With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy

7 mins

Towering achievement

On completion in 2014, Milan's Bosco Verticale (or 'vertical forest') towers were celebrated for their innovative, biodiverse design, described by Italian architect Stefano Boeri as a “home for trees that also houses humans and birds”.

1 min

DESIGN NOTES

This garden on the Isle of Man draws on the island's rich heritage of engraved stones.

2 mins

IMAGINATIVE WAYS WITH WATER

Designer Charlotte Harris suggests smart, interesting ways to introduce water and use it to completely transform a garden

5 mins

DESIGN IDEAS

Water is used to bring connection to a steep slope in this Isle of Wight garden designed by Andy Sturgeon.

3 mins

Bombproof plants

Discover the indestructible varieties that designers, head gardeners and flower growers rely on: the top easy-to-grow, long-lived, pest- and disease-free performers for your garden

5 mins

CULTURE FLASH

This fascinating dive into the cultural significance of gardens will feed your mind, spark your imagination and leave you hungry for more

3 mins

It is not all doom and gloom for the human race'

The landscape designer and TV presenter Mark Lane on how science fiction is fast becoming gardening fact

3 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.