Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2019 i Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Alongside the idea of sustainability – reducing and recycling plastic, avoiding peat composts and buying fewer (but better) things – is the idea of slow design. The Slow Movement is perhaps most familiar to us in terms of the food we eat, grown locally and eaten in season. ‘Slow’ isn’t about moving at a snail’s pace but rather seeking to do things at a speed that is right. This isn’t news to gardeners, but it is less frequently considered in terms of garden design. La Granja Alnardo in central Spain is a garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith and actively gardened by its owner Peter Sisseck. “Never have I felt more strongly that what I am doing as a designer is setting a process in motion, as it were, pushing the…

1 Winter garden tours Explore the stunning Winter Garden at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. To mark the milestone, free one-hour tours will take place every Sunday through January and February. Visitors must sign up at Brookside Gate on the day and places are limited. From 6 January, tours leave from the Glasshouse Terrace at 2.30pm. Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE. Tel 01223 336265, botanic.cam.ac.uk 2 Handle with Care Exhibition Discover how RHS Lindley Library protects and conserves its collections in this new exhibition, with many precious items, including the notebooks of 19th-century plant collectors, on display. 7 January – 15 February, 10am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Free. RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE. Tel 020 7821 3050,…

The sheer scale of Las Cañadas del Teide, the ancient craters on Tenerife’s largest volcano are impressive. At an elevation of 2,300m, the wide bowl is already high above the tree line and the sea of clouds. Snow capped from November to March, Mount Teide is the highest mountain on Spanish territory. Still active, steam belches from fumaroles at the summit. It last erupted in 1909, the historic lava flows roll down from the mountain ridges to swamp the rocky landscape below like a petrified ocean swell. The primitive desolation of this geological landscape and huge starry night sky is enough of a reason to visit. The low, tough flora is also inspirational and outstandingly beautiful. A skeletal dried-flower garden for many months of the year, a burst of vivid…

• Ashwood Nurseries Ashwood Lower Lane, Ashwood, Kingswinford, West Midlands DY6 0AE. Tel 01384 401996, ashwoodnurseries.com • Burncoose Nurseries Gwennap, Redruth, Cornwall TR16 6BJ. Tel 01209 860316, burncoose.co.uk • Cambridge University Botanic Garden 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE. Tel 01223 336265, botanic.cam.ac.uk • The Place for Plants East Bergholt Place, Suffolk CO7 6UP. Tel 01206 299224, placeforplants.co.uk • The Savill Garden and Valley Gardens Windsor Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 2HT. Tel 01753 860222, windsorgreatpark.co.uk…

Block planting can be useful in contemporary settings. On this site planting in the parking forecourt and up the steps is realised in blocks of green-leaved perennial plants: first, a line of bamboo, then Lomandra longifolia ‘Breeze’ at the foot of the steps then Ophiopogon further up – create pleasing contrasts with the variegated woody hues of the cedar shingles on the building. The plantings play an architectural role, in that the size and shape of the blocks respond to the volumes of the house’s façade. Block planting is also useful in areas visitors pass through quickly and where a complex planting scheme would compete with another distraction, in this case, a stupendous view.…

Work has begun on a contemporary new house designed by architects Pod Newcastle with gardens landscaped by Sean Murray of Garden Narratives. Part of the house sits in the footprint of the disused potting shed and greenhouses of a Grade II-listed walled garden near Morpeth in Northumberland, but extends via a glass walkway to an underground wing, lit through a retractable glass roof. The garden partly forms a green roof to the circular building and continues the circular theme, borrowed from an original moon window in the boundary wall, with round openings cut into the serpentine yew hedge that creates a wave across the garden, and a circle of beech hedging that forms a secluded seating area. podnewcastle.co.uk/…

Jinny Blom Garden designer As far as trends are concerned, there is much more focus on removing plastics from our trades. Landscaping is so close to the earth, we see the issues very closely. At present there are no commercial alternatives to plastic plant pots, yet I predict this will change very rapidly in the near future. For starters, at least companies are looking at alternatives, such as simply changing the colour of pots so they can be processed for recycling. As far as our own work is concerned, we are masterplanning an extraordinary new public project at Waddesdon Manor for the National Trust and The Rothschild Foundation. It will showcase many aspects of horticulture and agriculture, past present and future, along with all sorts of science and lore of…

CABBAGE: A GLOBAL HISTORY by Meg Muckenhoupt Reaktion Books, £10.99 ISBN 978-1780239811 This compact book explores the history of the cabbage and its place as an iconic ingredient on the world’s culinary stage. VEGETABLES, SOIL AND HOPE by Guy Singh-Watson Riverford Organic, £9.99 ISBN 978-0993215520 Guy Singh-Watson co-owns Riverford Organic with his employees, This is a one-stop-shop for his foreward-thinking ideas on veg growing. IRREPLACEABLE: A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 100 PLACES by Philip Wilkinson Historic England, £20 ISBN 978-1848025097 A list of England’s most eminent locations from well-known parks and monuments to hidden gems. SPIRIT OF THE NORTH: COCKTAIL RECIPES AND STORIES FROM SCANDINAVIA by Selma Slabiak TeNeues, €25 ISBN 978-3961711529 Plant-based cocktails inspired by personal stories of mixologist Selma Slabiak. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER by…

FEBRUARY ISSUE • Designer Ulf Nordfjell chooses his 100 best plants • Snowdrop immortals – meet the galanthophiles proud to a have a snowdrop to their name • Chique city style from award-winning Matt Keightley • Early flowering iris for a burst of colour • Bold architectural planting brings structure to an American garden…

JESS SNOWBALL Jess begins a new column on caring for houseplants, page 114. “Sharing your home with plants creates unique relationships, and almost every houseplant has a fascinating story to tell.” TIM RICHARDSON Tim gets vertigo visiting an Andrea Cochran garden, page 64. “I’ve followed Andrea’s work for years and she is arguably the most successful garden designer in the USA.” AGATA WIERZBICKA Agata illustrates our new houseplant column, page 114 “It is amazing how much we still can learn about the plants that have been accompanying our lives for years.”…

VIVID MEMORIES For many years the French artist Pierre Bonnard lived at Vernonnet just a mile away from Claude Monet at Giverny, and although the two artists differed in painting and gardening styles (Bonnard’s garden was an overgrown jungle), they became good friends sharing a passion for capturing nature on canvas. Some of Bonnard’s garden scenes, including Le Jardin (1936), above, are included in a new exhibition, Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory, which opens at Tate Modern this month. Covering a period from 1912 to Bonnard’s death in 1947, the exhibition celebrates the post-impressionist’s ability to encapsulate memories and emotions, and brings together around 100 of his works. 23 January – 6 May. tate.org.uk…

AGASTACHE ‘KOLIBRI’ We are irresistibly drawn to agastache for their bold, nectar-rich flower spikes, architectural seedheads and long flowering season. Some are not reliably hardy, but trial and error has led us to find some tough and persistent cultivars, of which Agastache ‘Kolibri’ is our favourite. It is a beautiful soft apricot orange – the sort of colour you would expect to belong to a plant of tender constitution, and yet it sailed through the cold harsh winter of 2017/18. The trick is to give it space. Combine with Salix purpurea ‘Nancy Saunders’, Dahlia ‘Cornel Brons’ and Panicum ‘Frosted Explosion’ for a winning combination. Height 90cm. Origin Brian Kabbes Nursery, the Netherlands. Conditions A sunny spot with reasonable drainage. Hardiness USDA 7a-10a† . Season of interest July to October. SESLERIA…

Earliest gardening memory My most vivid memories are about plants in the countryside rather than the garden. I was fascinated by wildflowers from an early age and my Dad would help me look up any I didn’t recognise in a much-used copy of Keble Martin’s 1960s’ Concise British Flora in Colour and then press them between tissues to put in a scrapbook. Career change I worked as a community pharmacist for over 20 years before making my career move. For me, gardening was an interest that grew and grew out of my early love for wildflowers. In the end it became almost all consuming and I knew it was time to make the change. I love being outside, I love the chance to use my artistic side, I love the…

When I pitch up at Tresco’s celebrated Abbey Garden, established in the 19th century around the ruins of a Benedictine abbey, curator Mike Nelhams is not at his desk. Nor can he be found among the labyrinthine paths that wind among the countless botanical treasures of this subtropical garden, or even up a tree. Mike’s first permanent job here was as an arborist, though these days he leaves the tree work to his long-serving head gardener Andrew Lawson. As helicopter blades rattle and roar, sending red squirrels scattering, it becomes apparent that Mike is engaged in one of his many other jobs, as reserve air traffic controller, landing a naval rotorcraft on a square of green by the garden gate. Multi-tasking, he explains, is an essential part of island life.…

APRIL 6-7 April Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair, UK Specialist nurseries and seasonal plants. 11am-4pm. Admission with garden entry ticket £10.45. Great Dixter, Northiam, Rye, East Sussex TN31 6PH. Tel 01797 254048, greatdixter.co.uk 8-10 April RHS Spring Launch and Orchid Show, UK The first RHS show of the year, incorporating the RHS Orchid Show. 10am-5pm. From £5 (RHS members free). RHS Lawrence Hall, Westminster, London SW1P 2QD. Tel 0844 995 9664, rhs.org.uk 12-14 April RHS Cardiff Flower Show, UK Regional nurseries and show gardens. 10am-5.30pm. From £11. Bute Park, Cardiff Castle, Cardiff CF10 1BJ. Tel 0844 995 9664, rhs.org.uk 12-14 April Fête des Plantes de Printemps, Château de Saint-Jean de Beauregard, France Unusual plants from Europe’s finest nurseries. 10am-6pm. From €14. Château de Saint-Jean de Beauregard, Rue de Château, 91940…

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1 LUKESLAND GARDENS 24 acres of breath-taking landscaped gardens, with brilliant spring and autumn colour and a notable collection of specimen trees and shrubs. Set in a picturesque valley by a Dartmoor stream. Family-run tea-room serving soup and cakes. Dogs welcome on a lead. Open 31 March-16 June and 6 Oct-17 Nov. Harford, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0JF | 01752 691749 | lukesland.co.uk 2 GLAMIS CASTLE Enjoy a day in the glorious gardens at Glamis Castle. With over 400 years of history the grounds and gardens have been developed and enhanced by generations of the Strathmore family. Stroll through in any season, our fine avenues, rose and Italian gardens, a pinetum and a newly renovated working walled garden. Angus, Scotland DD8 1RJ | 01307 840393 | enquiries@glamis-castle.co.uk 3 GREAT COMP GARDEN…

What makes nepenthes such rewarding houseplants – aside from a satisfying decline in unwanted flies – is how responsive they are to love, care and affection. You can track their growth on an almost daily basis and watching your plant grow can become addictive as well as truly satisfying. In the wild nepenthes can grow in the ground as well as on rocks or on the surface of other plants; their climbing nature means they can grow in weird and wonderful ways in which it is possible to manipulate indoors. I adore them at height, so displaying them in hanging baskets gives the scrambling species the perfect opportunity to show off their natural habit. A true carnivorous favourite, nepenthes, more commonly known as tropical pitcher plants, are notable for their…

JAMES BASSON James lives in the South of France where he runs Scape Design with his wife Helen, specialising in low-maintenance and dry gardens. He is a fervent advocate for creating sustainable landscapes. The winner of four Chelsea Gold medals, he was awarded Best in Show in 2017. FERGUS GARRETT Fergus was appointed head gardener at Great Dixter by Christopher Lloyd in 1993. He is passionate about passing on his knowledge through student and volunteer programmes at Dixter and through worldwide lectures. He was awarded an RHS Associate of Honour in 2008. ANNA PAVORD Anna’s books include her bestseller The Tulip and most recently Landskipping. For 30 years she was The Independent’s gardening correspondent. In 2000 the RHS awarded her the Veitch Memorial Medal. She lives and gardens in Dorset.…

ALL-WEATHER STYLE Add a touch of class to outdoor furnishings with this new fabric range from Perennials in collaboration with Morris & Co. Featuring four of William Morris’s iconic designs, such as Strawberry Thief (shown above) and Bachelor’s Button, the range also includes four new designs inspired by Morris – all available in a range of colourways. Perennials’ hard-wearing fabric is water repellent, and also resistant to colour-fading and stains, making it the perfect fabric for brightening up outdoor furniture when summer finally returns. perennialsfabrics.com WINTER WONDERLAND Himalayan silver birch (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii) with their stunning, pure-white trunks bring an ethereal beauty to the newly planted winter garden that opens this month at Wakehurst, Kew’s sister garden in West Sussex. Bolder, brighter shades will also be…

If you would like to grow any of these recommended plants, many of our chosen plantspeople are also nursery owners, with whom you can enquire about plant availability. Alternatively, check which other nurseries have stock in the annual publication RHS Plant Finder, or via the website apps.rhs.org.uk/horticulturaldatabase/index.asp • Wildegoose Nursery Kew-trained Jack and Laura Willgoss set up Wildegoose Nursery in 2011, having taken on what was then Bouts Violas. Alongside an array of violas, they also sell home-propagated, hardy perennials. The Walled Garden, Lower Millichope, Munslow, Shropshire SY7 9HE. Tel 01584 841890, wildegoosenursery.co.uk • Knoll Gardens is headed by Neil Lucas, the UK’s leading authority on ornamental grasses. As well as the nursery, there’s an inspirational four-acre show garden. Stapehill Road, Hampreston, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 7ND. Tel 01202 873931, knollgardens.co.uk…

What A genus of around 70 species of woody shrubs in the family Berberidaceae. In the past they have been included in the genus Berberis. Commonly known as Oregon grape or holly grape, they have attractive, ornamental dark-purple fruits with a grey bloom that are loved by birds. The flowers are also a valuable source of nectar. Origins The Himalayas. east and southeast Asia and Central and North America. Season Planted for their bold architectural foliage and form all year round, with bright, sometimes fragrant flowers from autumn to spring. Many have colourful young spring growth. Size Variable; from low, suckering groundcover to tall, multi-stemmed specimen plants over 3m in height. Conditions Sunshine or part shade in organic-rich, moisture-retentive, free-draining soil of any kind, including chalk. Hardiness Almost all are…

A fine view across the city and its bay is not such an unusual asset when it comes to high-end houses in hilly San Francisco, but what this property offers is in a league of its own. For anyone who is prone to vertigo (like me), the steps up the side of the house, complete with protruding Corten steel and glass overlooks, appear daunting indeed. Cantilevered over the cliff edge, each overlook has a gridded base that ends with a glass panel, so the intrepid visitor has a view down the almost-vertical cliff face. Huge eucalyptus trees grow in abundance on the cliffs and then the eye travels on to the city, the docks, the downtown skyscrapers and, beyond, the bay itself, criss-crossed by ferries and bridges, with the former…

• Change your attitude to what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘best’. Forget the idea that plants need constant food from outside sources such as fertilisers and that the soil is incapable of caring for itself. Be happy with the odd clover or spotted leaf. • Try to avoid using fungicides on your plants as this will only damage all the beneficial organisms that you are trying to maintain. This goes for pesticides, too, and – as much as possible – herbicides. These also damage the life within the soil in the long run, creating greater problems for your soil and plants. Instead, build and maintain a healthy population of micro-organisms, fungi, bacteria by using sustainable techniques and allow them to care for your plants as nature intended. • Only…

A LITTLE BOOK OF LATIN FOR GARDENERS by Peter Parker Little Brown, £12.99 ISBN 978-1408706169 A discursive and informative introduction to botanical Latin and a fun exploration of the history of naming of plants. Reviewer Rory Dusoir is a Kew-trained gardener and writer. Botanical Latin is an almost unique remnant of an age when Latin was the common language among European scholars. Many may lament its continued use, but there really is no alternative – to insulate scientific names from the constant flux in usage that characterises a living language, it makes perfect sense that they are written in a dead one. And the famously terse nature of the Ancient Roman tongue makes it particularly suitable, somehow, for the extraordinary feat of compression that is required to describe a living…

1 DYFFRYN GARDENS Ramble through the extensive arboretum, enjoy snowdrops and camellias, and explore the various intimate garden rooms. Seek respite from the cold in the large Glasshouse, with orchid and cacti collections. Unwind afterwards in our café, indulging in our seasonal dishes and delicious cake. Vale of Glamorgan CF5 6SU | 0292 059 3328 | nationaltrust.org.uk 2 EMMETTS GARDEN, NATIONAL TRUST The views from the garden alone are well worth making a visit for, more and more viewpoints open up over the winter months creating better vistas across the Weald of Kent and beyond. Wander through to the south garden full of exotic and rare trees and shrubs from across the globe. Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6BA | 01732 868381 | nationaltrust.org.uk 3 DUNHAM MASSEY, NATIONAL TRUST Grab…