Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2024 i Gardens Illustrated Magazine

It’s high summer, and high time for gardens and gardening, so this month, we’re visiting some incredibly inspiring gardens with dreamy designs. Our first stop is the Isle of Wight, where Andy Sturgeon has turned a steep hillside into a Mediterranean-style oasis (page 34). In the City of London, Tom Stuart-Smith Studio has created a contemporary roof garden with unbelievable views of St Paul’s Cathedral and the city skyline (page 96); and Stefano Marinaz has transformed a small, narrow town garden into a haven for a young family (page 68). We also take a trip to the Barwitian Garden of Ralph Bristow, an Australian artist and garden designer, whose large country plot is brimming with thousands of flowering perennials (page 52). This issue is packed with interesting people too, with…

2-7 Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival Explore gardens and nurseries at the six-day RHS show that opens Tuesday, 2 July, 10am-6.30pm (5.30pm Sunday). From £25.85. Hampton Court Palace Gardens, London KT8 9AU. rhs.org 13 Sweet Pea Workshop Learn to draw and paint sweet peas in the garden on this one-day course with Jacky Mills at Caisson Gardens. Saturday, 13 July, 10am-4pm. £120. Caisson House, Combe Hay, Bath, Somerset BA27EF. caissongardens.com 20-21 Botanical Art Fair Browse work from a range of artists at this weekend art fair. Saturday, 20 July - Sunday, 21 July, 11am-5pm. £12. Sussex Prairie Garden, Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road, Henfield, West Sussex BN5 9AT. sussexprairies.co.uk…

CORNUS ‘NORMAN HADDEN’ In summer, the graceful, arching branches of this spreading tree are covered with large, star-shaped flowers, which are made of creamy-white bracts that age to pink. Showy, edible, strawberry-like fruits follow, and the stunning autumn foliage colour ranges from vivid orange to red. It has inherited the exfoliating bark from one parent, C. kousa, while the other, C. capitata, has influenced the semipersistent foliage; both features are much appreciated throughout winter. This spontaneous hybrid was found in Norman Hadden’s Somerset garden in 1958. AGM*. Height and spread 8m x 6m. Origin Garden. Conditions Moist, well-drained, moderately rich soil; sun or part shade. Hardiness RHS H5, USDA 4a-8b+. Season of interest Flowers June -July; fruits August. SCAN HERE Scan the QR code with your phone camera to watch…

Plant lavender in spring when the soil is warming up and roots can grow quickly. If you plant in autumn, do it while the soil is still warm in September. There's no need to buy large plants; a 9cm pot plant can reach a good size by its second year. Plug plants are excellent value — grow on until the roots fill a 9cm pot, then plant out. Lavender needs sun and well-drained soil to thrive, as a Mediterranean plant. Ideally the soil will be neutral or slightly alkaline (pH6.5-8), although lavender will grow in slightly acidic soil. On heavy soil, improve drainage by adding plenty of well-rotted compost or horticultural grit to the planting hole. If you know your soil is soggy in winter. it's best to grow lavender…

PEOPLE MAKER Basket maker Mollie McMillen is endlessly thrilled and fascinated by the thought that people have been weaving vessels from natural materials for thousands of years. “Basketry uses all these ancient skills and techniques and I love that connection with history and where we all came from,” she says. “It makes me feel very close to the earth.” Her inspiration is the rural landscape around her Hampshire home, where she finds most of her materials. From tree plantations and hedgerows to sweet chestnut coppices, rushes, willow and garden prunings, she has a rich sourcebook “I have a mental map of the gardens, hedges and woods in this area, where various things live; it’s a seasonal map to find things at different times of year,” she explains. Preparing the materials…

THE GARDEN LIBERATED: AN EVOLUTION OF ITALIAN GARDEN DESIGN by Paolo Pejrone, photography by Dario Fusaro, Rizzoli, £50 ISBN 978-8891840554 An insight into the work of celebrated Italian garden architect Paolo Pejrone - who was profiled in Gardens Illustrated in June 2023 (issue 326) through ten of his gardens in different regions of Italy, from the gentle hills of Tuscany to the sunny coasts of the south. BUDS AND BLOSSOMS: DELICIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL EDIBLE FLOWER RECIPES by Liz Knight, Hardie Grant, £28 ISBN 978-1784886592 A book that shows that there is much more to cooking with edible flowers than adorning cakes and sweets. Includes more than 100 recipes - from lilac lemon possets to a marigold martini - created by forager Liz Knight. POODLING: ON THE JUST SHAPING OF SHRUBBERY…

Janice Shipp Janice chooses some of the most fragrant lavenders, page 44. “‘Like most gardeners I love to grow lavender, and writing this article reminded me why I’m so fond of them” Marianne Majerus Marianne photographs a new rooftop garden in the City of London, page 96. “It was a real pleasure being on the roof terrace at sunrise, enjoying the plants and spectacular views over London.” Rachel Siegfried Rachel talks to Floret founder Erin Benzakein, page 88. “It was fascinating to talk to fellow flower farmer Erin about her quest to develop cutflower cultivars that empower and inspire.” CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Charlotte Harris Charlotte co-founded the values-driven landscape design practice Harris Bugg Studio with Hugo Bugg in 2017. She has won three Gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show,…

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I love borders that are full to the brim, ridiculously romantic, and plants tumbling over paths so you feel like you’re really exploring a garden Earliest garden memory My dad is a gardener, so as a boy I’d join him on his rounds and earn my £5 pocket money. I learned what was a ‘weed’ and how to remove it, and which customers had the best biscuit selection. First plant love Probably my collection of angry cacti that were packed on to our small kitchen windowsill. You took your life in your hands opening up the window. Horticultural heroes Derek Jarman and Christopher Lloyd sparked my curiosity early on. A little later, I was introduced to Vita Sackville-West through my mother-in-law’s love for the Bloomsbury Group. I can’t not talk…

In his twenties, Roy Diblik would regularly volunteer at the 100-acre prairie meadow at the Morton Arboretum on the outskirts of his home city of Chicago. One of the oldest tail-grass restorations in the American Midwest, it was curated by Ray Schulenberg, after whom it’s now named. Roy remembers when, in 1981, Ray asked him to help lay the narrowest of paths through its planting. “It was early in the year and the prairie plants were just emerging after the fire,” he recalls. “Ray said: ‘I just want it one cinder block wide because I want people to walk through there and I want the plants to touch them.’ He wanted people to feel the intimacy of plants.” Roy shares that enthusiasm for bringing people and plants together, although his…

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DIG IN THE GARDEN CHRONICLES Even the words ‘al fresco’ have a spring in their step. They sound jolly, even a little frisky. (I confused them with ‘in flagrante for many years.) Now, with sun hopefully beaming and the garden in full summer colour, is the time for some open-air activity, be it lunch in the garden or simply dozing in a deck chair. One of the first horticultural mistakes I made was forgetting that a garden needs somewhere in which to sit. So busy was I with making vegetable beds and compost heaps, creating a shade garden and even re-laying a terrace that I gave little or no thought to where anyone might sit or eat. A place in the garden to just ‘be’. All that changed when I…

SCAN HERE Watch Jo create this scheme from scratch in our video. Simply scan the QR code with your phone camera or head to gardensillustrated.com/pot-for-july SUMMER FIREWORKS High summer brings with it peak colour. As the days go by, the garden gradually moves from pastels through to warmer colours. In this arrangement, a mix of pinks with subtle undertones of coral brighten up a simple zinc bucket. The blooms of a clear-pink shrub rose, Rosa ‘The Fairy’, are accompanied by daylilies whose bewitching smudgy tones make up for the fact that these flowers last for only 24 hours. How to achieve the look Container and composition The colours are everything in this arrangement, and so the simpler the container, the better. This kind of zinc planter is readily available in…

1 Echinops ritro ‘Veitch’s Blue’ A bee magnet and eccentric dried flower, this perennial is a must in the garden. Harvest for drying when the tiny petals have fallen off, then bunch and hang up. Use on its own or with wispy grasses in winter for a dramatic dried bouquet. Height and spread: 1.2m × 50cm. RHS H7, USDA 3a-8b†. 2 Nigella damascena A hardy annual with delicate flowers and sculptural seedheads for drying. Sow where you would like it to flower, in a sunny spot in well-drained soil. Use these seedheads for buttonholes or tiny bud-vase joy in autumn and winter. 50cm × 50cm. RHS H3, USDA 2a-ll. 3 Cota tinctoria This sprawling, rather weak perennial is a beautiful sun-like dried flower and generates a golden dye colour for…

THE ANTIDOTE TO CLIMATE ANXIETY? This call to action - for gardeners and communities - to do more for wildlife is just the tonic for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis, says Cleve West ONE GARDEN AGAINST THE WORLD: IN SEARCH OF HOPE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE by Kate Bradbury Bloomsbury Wildlife, £18.99 ISBN 978-1399408868 Still reeling from the dystopian predictions outlined in Silent Earth by Dave Goulson, I approached this book with mild trepidation. It turned out, however, to be just the tonic I needed to muster some optimism amid the increasingly bleak predictions about a nature emergency. One Garden Against the World is part nature love story, part call to arms. It won’t fix climate change or the threat of biodiversity collapse on its own, but it…

I was embarrassed recently when some gardeners popped over to see our garden. If they were hoping for a wow moment, I don’t think they expected it to be: “Wow, that’s a lot of couch grass.” Despite writing books about embracing wildness, I still imagine the tut of society. But I’m on a mission for minimal maintenance. I don’t want to mulch, stake, prune, fertilise or weed ornamental planting. Instead, I want the plants to just get on with it. Before moving to a bigger garden in 2021, I knew I wanted it to look after itself. Like most people, I have a full-time job and a social life, and we spend a lot of time growing organic food, which doesn’t leave much time for ornamental stuff. Yet I still…