Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Widely regarded as the Vogue of the gardening press, Gardens Illustrated aims to inspire you with an eclectic and international editorial mix of remarkable places, plants and people. With superb photography, authoritative journalism and exceptional design, this award-winning magazine is a style bible for garden designers, garden lovers and enthusiasts alike.

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Gardens Illustrated Magazine

DIG IN • What's new, what's growing and what's going on this month

What to do this month

3 FOR THE GARDEN…

November plants • As the year nears its end, Dan Pearson adds colour with a late-flowering aster and autumnal foliage to lift the structural presence of biscuit-coloured grasses

KITTED OUT • For keeping warm and cosy in the garden on cooler autumn days

FAMILY FORTUNE • Designer Tom Simpson used his professional knowledge - and many plants from his show gardens – to transform the garden of his family's modern house in Devon

DESIGN FOR LIFE • We all want to put our own stamp on our gardens, but as Nigel Slater discovered, it pays to seek professional help

EARLY CAMELLIAS • The group of camellias known as ‘sasanquas’ flower in autumn to early winter, bringing much-needed colour and often delicious scent to late-season gardens

How to grow sasanqua camellias

LUKE COLEMAN • Edinburgh-based designer Luke has been creating gardens since 2017, and is winner of the 2025 RHS Young Garden Designer of the Year competition

TESTING GROUND • Emily Crowley-Wroe has used her own front garden in the Cotswolds to trial design and planting ideas

Inside out • As cooler, shorter days arrive, meaning less time for gardening, James Horner brings the outdoors in with three mood-boosting arrangements

Northern soul • Around their Cumbrian home, designers Julie Toll and Ian Kitson have created a contemporary garden fully embedded in its heritage location

CHARLOTTE ROWE • The award-winning garden designer on honouring her grandfather and taking the plunge on a midlife career change

On the edge • For her own garden, designer Lucy Willcox has transformed a sloping site, blending the wildness of a neighbouring common with the sharp lines of her 1960s home

SISTER ACT • Two food-obsessed sisters have turned a mission to create exciting meat-free meals into a thriving mushroom business

Design • News on the latest projects and sourcebook

A DIFFERENT LEVEL • Over 20 years, Emily Erlam has nurtured and edited the plants in her sloping city garden to create an intriguing, immersive space

Log stores • Keep logs dry and kindling organised with these creative storage solutions

DOWNTOOLS • Book reviews, Q&A, the crossword and the big idea

IN GOOD COMPANY • Kate Bradbury finds Jenny Uglow's biography of Gilbert White, the 18th-century naturalist and clergyman, and a fellow chronicler of nature, an absolute joy

Recommended reads this month

‘If I can't find a label I think, “I'll remember that.” But I don't’ • The celebrated garden designer Mary Keen on the importance of gardening over design, not killing pelargoniums and forgetting what she's planted

Crossword

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STOP SAYING ‘REWILDING’ • You don't need a country estate to make the world a little wilder, says James Canton. Think of renaturing rather than rewilding, and every modest act makes a difference