Gardens Illustrated Magazine - June 2023

In this issue

Pale and interesting
For Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company, tranquillity is the guiding principle in her beautifully realised white garden.

Plantsperson’s favourites
Åsa Gregers-Warg, head gardener at Beth Chatto’s Plants & Gardens, chooses her top ten plants for June..

June plants

In early summer, head gardener Åsa Gregers-Warg is spoilt for choice with a fabulous mix of richly coloured and delicate flowers, fabulous foliage and silky tactile grasses

5 mins

ADDED INTEREST?

Columnist Ken Thompson urges caution over so-called miracle garden products; they're not always all they're cracked up to be

4 mins

CECILY WITHALL

Kew's first female climbing arborist since the 1980s, Cecily is part of a team that maintains the botanical garden's impressive collection of 12,000 trees

2 mins

True grit

Swedish plantsman Peter Korn is a pioneer of growing in sand, and his glorious new garden near Malmö is testament to its success

4 mins

GEUM

Offering flowers from late spring into summer, this varied genus of hardy perennials is deservedly growing in popularity

6 mins

Pale and interesting

A sense of tranquillity is the guiding principle in this beautifully realised white garden, with an elegant, pared-back planting palette

3 mins

PAOLO PEJRONE

The legendary Italian designer, who thinks of himself primarily as a gardener, on the importance of keeping gardens bold and simple, and working with nature in adapting to climate change

3 mins

Wild dreams

The mix of varied growing conditions in this ebulliently planted garden in East Sussex helped to forge an ecological vision and approach to gardening that benefits wildlife

3 mins

Mixed blessings

In a quiet corner of Essex, designer Stefano Marinaz has replaced a lawn and parking space with a naturalistic garden of mixed planting that offers interest all year

3 mins

Nature first

Around the Neoclassical home of Jade and Julian Dunkerton, Urquhart & Hunt has designed a garden that works in harmony with a variety of wildlife

3 mins

Gathering attention

As garden designers start to reappraise lilacs, we take a look at the fascinating French history of the once ubiquitous English garden shrub and re-examine some forgotten cultivars

2 mins

Change of tune

In this small Dutch garden, designer Jelle Koot has used a simple rhythm of repeated plants to create a calming, cohesive scheme

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.