Gardens Illustrated Magazine

A must-read for devoted gardeners, Gardens Illustrated is a global magazine packed with inspiration and advice from professionals in garden design and planting.

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7 garden design rules you can totally break, and the one you never should

1 week ago | gardensillustrated.com | Ciar Byrne

When it comes to the layout and planting of our gardens, most of us have fixed ideas about how things should be done. Perhaps it was the way our childhood garden was arranged (large lawn with pencil-thin flowerbeds around the edges, anyone?), or something we’ve read in a book or seen on a TV show.
How to plant Eremurus

1 week ago | gardensillustrated.com | Matthew Wilson

Picture the scene. Dawn breaks over the desolately beautiful Tien Shan and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia. Miles of dusty, rubble-strewn desert, seemingly empty of any living thing. And then the half-light illuminates the tall inflorescences of hundreds upon hundreds of plants, punctuating the arid land, reaching skyward on stout stems nearly 2m tall, smothered in lightly fragrant flowers: Eremurus.
Mark Lane: "The future is already here"

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

SQUIRREL_13211971What prompted you to write the book? I’m a great sci-fi fan and I’ve always been interested in how we will grow food in space and on other celestial bodies. Films are great at creating futuristic landscapes, and for depicting life-support systems using biomaterial and creating closed-loop systems in space, so this sparked my interest in finding out whether real life dictates what we see in sci-fi films or vice-versa.
Nine garden design ideas to steal from this year's Chelsea Flower Show, including pink walls and upturned plant supports - plus one that won't cost you a penny | Gardens Illustrated

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The Chelsea Flower Show is of course a showcase of the best in garden design, and the expertise and big budgets on display can leave gardeners wondering how on earth they can translate the ideas at the show into their own smaller spaces.
What to see at Chelsea today: dog-friendly accommodation, a 16-tonne boulder balance and fungus-grown walls

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Alice Tuffery

It's Thursday 22nd May; the RHS members' days are over and the Chelsea Flower Show is now open to the public. We've been at the show, scouting out all the most interesting features and ideas. Here are five fascinating things to look out for around the Chelsea showground today, chosen by content assistant, Alice Tuffery.
Get the Chelsea look: 13 standout plants from this year's Chelsea Flower Show

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The gardens may steal the glory at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, but for many people, it's all about the plants. If you do a few circuits of the gardens and the Great Pavilion, you will begin to notice the same plants popping up here and there, in different ways.
Garden designer Tom Hoblyn interview

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Chris Young

It’s a substantial achievement, when your tenth RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden is actually to be your last. For Tom Hoblyn, creator of plant-rich, beautiful show gardens with fascinating back stories, this is exactly where he finds himself. But why is this his last show garden? “To be honest, it’s exhausting,” he says. “My first Chelsea was 2006, and that’s a long time to be doing these shows.
I have a poisoned pot that kills everything, says Nigel Slater - but I still love growing in containers

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Nigel Slater

In my tiny, urban, outdoor space, there are almost as many plants in pots as there are in the ground. Small trees grow in terracotta, wallflowers and foxgloves in verdigris- patinated copper planters, and woody-stemmed herbs in zinc troughs. There are azaleas and conifers on the roof in large plastic pots, heavy enough not to blow away, but light enough not to do any structural damage. There are even a few with vegetables in.
What to do at Chelsea Flower Show today: discover the Plant of the Year, enjoy tiny alpines and take a trip to the future

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

The Chelsea Flower Show is in full swing and the Gardens Illustrated team has been at the show, scouting out interesting features and ideas. Here are five interesting things to look out for around the Chelsea showground today, chosen by our commissioning editor, Veronica.
Chelsea 2025: Discover everything you need to know about the Best in Show-winning garden

2 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Veronica Peerless

Kazuyuki Ishihara is known at Chelsea for his exquisitely crafted and serene Japanese gardens that evoke the beauty of the Japanese satoyama (landscape). Acers always feature, along with irises, calming water, artfully placed stone and moss. He has done 17 small show gardens at Chelsea, many winning Gold or Best in Show, but this is his first on Main Avenue.