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This professional designer transformed his own typically long, narrow town garden into an urban oasis

Sep 24, 2024 | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless |Jason Ingram

When Matt Evans moved into his terraced house in Bath in 2020, he was confronted with what many of us face in a new garden – a lawn, some tired hard landscaping and a motley selection of structures. Matt is a chartered landscape architect, garden designer and plantsman, but instead of coming up with a completely new design for the long, narrow garden, he decided to make minimal hard landscaping changes and concentrate instead on filling it with rare and unusual plants.
Ingram thanks community for slowing Rainbow Family Gathering

Jul 8, 2024 | lassennews.com | Jason Ingram

Lassen County District 5 Supervisor Jason Ingram led the local charge of opposition against the Rainbow Family Gathering. Yesterday, he made this post on his Facebook page. Together as a community, we successfully prevented what could have been a 15,000+ incursion into our forests by uniting as a community and loudly announcing our opposition to this event.
How to create a beautiful garden with plants you can eat

Mar 12, 2024 | gardensillustrated.com | Alys Hurn |Jason Ingram

Hard-working herbs and vegetables are the focus of Anna Greenland’s small urban edible garden in Oxford. From the start, she pinpointed the edible plants she loved to eat and the garden is an extension of her kitchen. “It’s like having a little spice cabinet,” she explains. A keen advocate of Charles Dowding’s no-dig method, Anna filled the raised beds with well-rotted manure, building the soil up from the old lawn beneath.
This blank rectangular plot was transformed into a field of dreams by Piet Oudolf at a Somerset art gallery

Feb 13, 2024 | gardensillustrated.com | Anna Pavord |Jason Ingram

Colour is in the back of my head,” says master designer and plantsman Piet Oudolf. “Not on my tongue – I don’t speak colour.” We are talking about the grandiloquently named Oudolf Field, which opened on 14 September 2014 as a thrilling adjunct to the Hauser & Wirth art gallery on the outskirts of Bruton, Somerset. I’ve been asking Piet about the palette of plants he chose for the site, and how he arranges them. “Colour is so short,” he goes on.
Miniature daffodils: how to grow and plant miniature narcissi

Oct 24, 2023 | gardensillustrated.com | Jason Ingram |Alys Fowler

For almost 40 years, Anne Wright has been one of the UK’s leading miniature daffodil breeders. Anne breeds and propagates miniature narcissi in her suburban back garden. She also owns Dryad Nursery in North Yorkshire. If you want one of her narcissi – and I can’t imagine a soul in the world who wouldn’t be smitten by their perfect proportion, innate grace and delicate appearance – then you’re going to have to be quick off the mark, quite literally.
Quince fruit: what is quince?

Sep 26, 2023 | gardensillustrated.com | Jason Ingram |Lia Leendertz

There is a tradition of growing a single quince tree in an apple orchard. One quince in a fruit bowl fills the room with perfume for weeks, and a few slices of quince in an apple pie intensifies the flavour of the apples. A little quince goes a long way, one of the several factors that make this such a perfect garden tree. Discover our list of the best quince recipes. What is quince?
An edible forest garden in Cornwall

Sep 2, 2023 | gardensillustrated.com | Jason Ingram |Hannah Gardner

Sid Hill’s passion is creating landscapes and plantings that echo wild plant communities. His designs often feature perennial meadows, small-scale woodlands and wetlands – habitats that produce useful resources, restore environments and improve people’s lives. The origins of an edible forest garden lie in gathering and indigenous culture, where nature and cultivation coexist and benefit the planet.
Sunflowers: the best varieties and how to grow

Aug 16, 2023 | gardensillustrated.com | Matthew Biggs |Jason Ingram

The wild sunflower Helianthus annuus, one of 70 species in the genus, is found in any sunny, dry open place, often as a weed in cultivated fields of North America, from the Mississippi and Pacific Coast, south to Mexico and beyond. Growing up to 4.5m tall it has rough, coarsely toothed, leaves and large, flat, ‘daisy’ flowers in branched clusters atop stiff, green stems.
Flowers in August: the best plants for your garden this month

Jul 27, 2023 | gardensillustrated.com | Tom Brown |Jason Ingram

Wondering what flowers look great in August? Here are a few choices, including two richly coloured gladioli, a delicate sunflower and strong-growing, pale-blue ipomoea, from Tom Brown’s top picks for this month. Read our piece on where's best to catch them in full bloom here.
How to grow Echinops: planting and caring for globe thistles

Jul 4, 2023 | gardensillustrated.com | Jason Ingram

Transform Your Garden This special edition features advice on designing your garden from the world’s top garden designers, including top tips for redesigning your plot or creating a new garden from scratch. Discover eight inspirational gardens in town and country, and beautiful planting ideas for year-round colour. Learn how to make the most of a small space, how to cope with a slope, and the ten most common mistakes people make, according to professional garden designers, and how to avoid them.