The English Garden

Showcasing the finest of British gardening, The English Garden provides a wealth of inspiration and useful tips. With top-notch coverage and unique photography of both traditional and modern gardens, whether in urban areas or rural settings, each edition is packed with insightful plant articles, practical guidance, and interviews with the designers and gardeners who are shaping the latest trends in gardening.

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Add glamour and drama to your borders with these ten silver foliage plants

4 days ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Vivienne Hambly

This article contains affiliate links. The products or services listed have been selected independently by journalists after hands-on testing or sourcing expert opinions. We may earn a commission when you click a link, buy a product or subscribe to a service - at no extra cost to you. Wiltshire-based head gardener Andy Karavics picks 10 of his favourite silver plants.
For the prettiest garden, look to the soft pastel tones of peach and apricot

1 week ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Clare Foggett

Peach is just such an easy colour to integrate with other plants, looking effortlessly romantic and pretty in all sorts of different schemes. Try it with creamy whites and silver foliage plants, creating the look of the most romantic wedding bouquet in your border. If that’s too pale and pastel for you, it can easily be livened up by adding a few spots of brighter purple or opulent maroon to the mix.
These brilliant red-flowered plants will warm up the garden with their hot, fiery tones

2 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Clare Foggett

These vivid, fiery flowers will definitely grab your attention, which is why it pays to think about where you plant them and what with. Team them with yellows and oranges and you’ll create a ‘hot’ border of warm tones. At Coughton Court in Warwickshire, scarlet ‘Kung Fu’ dahlias are teamed with orange Canna ‘Wyoming’, yellow Kniphofia ‘Wrexham Buttercup’ and Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ in the garden’s renowned Hot Borders.
Anne Chambers, of Kiftsgate Court Gardens, chooses her favourite plants with pink flowers

2 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Vivienne Hambly

This article contains affiliate links. The products or services listed have been selected independently by journalists after hands-on testing or sourcing expert opinions. We may earn a commission when you click a link, buy a product or subscribe to a service - at no extra cost to you. Kiftsgate in Gloucestershire is one of the UK’s best-known and most romantic gardens, thanks to the colour pink, which runs all the way through it as a unifying thread.
Got a tricky shady spot where nothing will grow? Follow our experts’ advice to make the best of it

2 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Clare Foggett

“People think the only things that grow in shade are hostas and ferns,” she adds, but a quick glance at one of her RHS Chelsea Flower Show displays of shade-loving plants will dispel that myth. “I want to inspire show visitors and let them see what’s possible,” she continues. Her Chelsea exhibit is divided into four sections covering different types of shade: full shade and dry soil, partial shade and dry soil, full shade and moist soil, and partial shade with moist soil.
Celebrate 30 years of The Great Gardens of Cornwall

2 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Clare Foggett

It’s been 30 years since a group of garden owners in Cornwall got together to form The Great Gardens of Cornwall to better promote this collective of the county’s best gardens to visit. Not that garden lovers need much encouragement to head to Cornwall to get their fix of gorgeous plants. Towering cordylines, groves of tree ferns, hydrangeas weighed down by clusters of pink and blue blooms, spires of echiums... these are the plants that spring to mind whenever anyone says ‘Cornish garden’.
Wonderlands by Clare Coulson explores the glorious gardens of 18 renowned landscape architects

2 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Clare Coulson

After negotiating the narrow, twisting lanes of north Wiltshire, it’s immediately apparent when Catherine FitzGerald’s home looms into view. It’s not the big oak barrel, denoting the 18th-century property’s former life as a brewery, but the mad froth of flowers that spills forth from the house that gives it away. Roses including ‘New Dawn’, ‘Albrighton Rambler’ and ‘The Garland’ clamber up to the mullion windows, or fall over the stone wall that marks the boundary.
These cheery flowers are one of the easiest annuals to grow and burst with vibrant colour

3 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Clare Foggett

They’re a hardy annual, which means you can sow them in autumn or during spring. Sow in autumn (August to October) and they’ll germinate and then over-winter as small seedlings, in position and ready to grow as soon as the temperature warms up in spring, giving you earlier flowers. Those sown in spring will flower later in summer. You can sow from March to May for flowers the same year.
The best cordless lawn mowers of 2025, tried and tested

3 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Niamh Collins

Buying a lawn mower is no mean feat when it comes to the sheer variety of models in the market. With boasted benefits such as ease of assembly, long battery life, multiple cutting lengths and value for money, it can be difficult to know what to prioritise for your circumstances. Cordless mowers are often preferable to traditional petrol alternatives due to their ease of manoeuvrability, lightweight designs and low maintenance.
These 10 cut-and-come-again flowers will fill your home with blooms all summer

3 weeks ago | theenglishgarden.co.uk | Hazel Sillver

Grow the right plants in your cutting patch and you need never visit a florist again. These cut-and-come-again plants will give you generous amounts of fresh flowers all summer long if you keep cutting them. Published Date:3 June 2025Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) are the most famous cut-and-come-again flowers of all. Because they’re annuals which must set seed during their one-year existence, if you cut a flower the plant will produce another.