Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2024 i Gardens Illustrated Magazine

As well as experiencing the famous White Garden and Rose Garden at their peak flowering time, our guests will have the chance to see the new Delos garden created with designer Dan Pearson, the Cottage Garden and Orchard all to themselves when the garden has closed for the day and regular visitors have gone. The event will begin in the afternoon with a talk from head gardener Troy, with insights into the garden's creation by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and its ongoing development, as well as its quintessentially English-style planting. The walking tour will follow, culminating in a pre-dinner drink and Q&A session. After a tasty buffet-style supper, guests are free to explore the gardens again at their own pace. Gardens Illustrated reserves the right to change any element…

IN BRIEF What Private contemporary-style garden that forms part of a larger walled garden. Where Suffolk. Size 650 square metres. Soil Sandy but generally good garden soil (the site used to be a managed productive walled garden). Climate Temperate, with occasional frosts but sea breeze keeps most cold away. Generally dry and sunny. Hardiness zone USDA 9. Gardens need to look and feel beautiful through the year. I want seasonal rhythms Just as parents aren't meant to have a favourite child, garden designers aren't meant to have a favourite project. And even though designer Colm Joseph would never admit to having preferential feelings for this scheme, he does agree that “it is certainly one of my most important”. From concept to execution, and from client buy-in to project maturation, it's…

DESIGN INSIGHT The brief The owners of this Cotswold property had recently retired and downsized from their 18th-century dower house by converting their former barn and other outbuildings into a new home. The house is arranged around a 16m x 12m courtyard, originally a rectangle of scruffy turf, with a central sunken gravel area. “The clients were pretty open in their brief,” says landscape and garden designer Angus Thompson. “They just wanted a more elegant version of what they had; something that had to look after itself. For me though, this lovely, closed, southwest-facing courtyard lent itself to other, more exciting treatments.” The design Angus sees this as a garden of three parts: a lawn quadrangle bounded by a perennial walk; a west-facing ‘gin terrace’ that captures the evening light;…

PLANT PROFILE ALLIUMS FACT FILE What Allium is a genus of more than 1,000 species that include cultivated onion, garlic, shallots, leeks and chives. The summer-flowering species featured here are largely ornamental plants, sometimes known as ornamental onions. Season June to late August. Size Heights vary from 5cm to 2.2m. All heights and spreads given here are approximate. Conditions Sunny to light shade in free-draining loam. Origins Throughout North America, Europe, Asia and parts of northern and southern Africa. Hardiness Hardy throughout the UK and suitable for gardens in USDA zones 4a to 8b. *Holds an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. †Hardiness ratings given where available. Valued for their firework displays that supersede the cacophony of tulips, alliums have rightly become a stalwart of the garden and…

IN BRIEF What Naturalistic perennial garden with exuberant use of colour. Where Victoria, Australia. Size One-and-a-half-acre garden as part of a seven-acre property. Soil Clay. Climate Temperate, with an average rainfall of 710mm. Hardiness zone USDA 10a. There's musicality to the garden, with lulls and crescendos that are accentuated by the play of light Ann-Maree Winter knows better than most the transformative power of gardening. Her garden on the Mornington Peninsula in southern Australia is a place of solace, joy and plenty of colour. She and her husband Paul bought the property in 2015, moving from a 450 square metre suburban plot with sandy soil to seven windswept acres of rich volcanic soil. “I can stick my finger in the ground here, and it should grow,” she says, with a…

BEHIND THE PRIVET HEDGE: RICHARD SUDELL, THE SUBURBAN GARDEN AND THE BEAUTIFICATION OF BRITAIN by Michael Gilson Reaktion Books, £16.95, ISBN 978-1789148602 Everyone is an activist now. At least, that is how it seems to me, as so many artists, celebrities and influencers describe themselves in this way. Such faux-activism tends to add up to little more than relentless self-promotion via social media. Not so with Richard Sudell. He was the real thing: a zealous crusader in the cause of gardens for working people. Having left school at 14 to work as a gardener for eight years, Sudell trained at Kew, was imprisoned as a Quaker conscientious objector in the First World War, and then became a tireless advocate for gardens of any size. He sat on just about every…

ACROSS 1 Genus of monk's-hood and wolfsbane – Naomi cut badly (8) 6 Encouraged … what the successful cutting did? (6) 9 Knar in tree bark noticed (4) 10 ___ Pagels, German plant breeder (died 2007) – terribly stern! (5) 11 See 3 down 12 Enclosed eg like Mottisfont Abbey's rose garden (6) 13 A very dwarf pea plant aka ‘Tom Thumb’ – small beer? (4,4) 15 Common name of Aechmea fasciata bromeliad with vase-shaped rosette of leaves (3,5) 17 In short, the county location of Trentham Gardens (6) 19 A named Mahonia x lindsayae hybrid (of a major English university) (6) 21 Common name of Galega officinalis – nanny's regret? (5,3) 23 Like a cottage garden, ie not rigidly laid out (8) 25 Fibre in eg apples used to set jams – in retrospect, inedible (6) 27 A cantaloupe type melon with…

FESTIVAL FLORAL FLOURISH Since its launch in 2013, British Flowers Week – the annual celebration of seasonal, British-grown flowers – has been organised by New Covent Garden Flower Market. This year, however, it is passing the baton to Flowers from the Farm, the association that brings together more than 1,000 flower farmers across the UK. It promises to be the same glorious celebration of all things floral, with London's Garden Museum once again inviting some of the country's top floral designers to create showstopping installations around the museum, and flower-filled workshops, demonstrations and other events will be taking place at locations around the UK. 3-9 June. britishflowersweek.com Talking point SHOULD WE LEAVE IVY ALONE? Ivy is a common sight in UK gardens and landscapes – scrambling up walls, covering ground…

My team and I analyse the planting throughout the year in each of the ten Sissinghurst ‘rooms’, making comments on what's looking good The vernal equinox may be the signal for the garden to wake up, but the slow burn of April and May is only fully ignited with the blaze of June. Soaring spikes of lupins begin to show colour, peony buds rupture revealing their crinkled petals, cow parsley froths in broad waist-high swathes and poppies dance in excited fecundity. For three weeks in June, the air within the crumbling walls of Sissinghurst hangs heavy with the intoxicating scent of roses. Of all Sissinghurst's flowers, it was the rose that most captured Vita Sackville-West's imagination. ‘They have a generosity which is as desirable in plants as in people,’ she…

IN BRIEF What A biodiverse rural retreat featuring a meadow and wildlife pond and an aromatic gravel garden. Where Wiltshire. Size Half an acre. Soil Shallow lime-rich soil with a loamy texture. Climate Temperate maritime. Hardiness zone USDA 9a. To the rear of the chapel lies the graveyard, where headstones are now wreathed in wildflowers and peppered with species roses Chapel House is an intriguing and unusual property with a rich ecclesiastical history. A Grade II-listed congregational chapel and manse, it's set in a secluded rural valley on the edge of the Cotswolds, close to an old Roman road, the Fosse Way. When interior designer Sheena Murphy, the founder of Studio Nune, bought the property, the chapel and manse, set just 1m apart, had already been meticulously restored and linked…

IN BRIEF What A garden of two halves, one wild and the other designed. Where Shropshire. Size Three quarters of an acre. Soil Neutral clay soil. Climate High rainfall and partly exposed site. Hardiness zone USDA 8. One person's love can be another's loathing. Letting weeds float in and out of borders might please some, but offend others. Creating a garden is very personal, so it's no wonder that gardeners might struggle to share a space, spending many precious hours arguing over plans and plants. Michael Marriott and Rosie Irving met 14 years ago through their work in horticulture, and have shared their Shropshire garden for the past ten years by having their own designated areas. Their decision to divide the garden and the success of this idea has proved…

Leaning into technology Award-winning landscape designer Jo Thompson has been awarded the highest accolade, the Grand Gold Award, at the GBA Shenzhen Flower Show in China. Her show garden, I Live with Nature, included a curved brick pavilion at the centre, which was created in collaboration with Princeton University's Form Finding Lab, and researchers from the Universities of Bergamo and Pegaso, using augmented reality (AR) technology. This AR technology, combined with traditional bricklaying methods, allowed masons to position the bricks with greater accuracy so that a skilled mason wearing an AR headset was able to place each brick in exactly the right place to achieve perfect leans and geometries. As a result the walls of the pavilion are able to lean into the central space and also out over the…