Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Widely regarded as the Vogue of the gardening press, Gardens Illustrated aims to inspire you with an eclectic and international editorial mix of remarkable places, plants and people. With superb photography, authoritative journalism and exceptional design, this award-winning magazine is a style bible for garden designers, garden lovers and enthusiasts alike.

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DIG IN • What’s new, what’s growing and what’s going on this month

WHAT TO DO IN… FEBRUARY

3 FOR THE GARDEN…

KITTED OUT • Our selection of investment buys for the garden that will stand the test of time

50 FERGUS GARRETT'S favourite plants • Fergus Garrett has been head gardener at Great Dixter in East Sussex for more than 30 years. For the first 13 years, he worked side by side with Dixter’s owner, the gardener and writer Christopher ‘Christo’ Lloyd, helping to cement Dixter’s reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative gardens. Since Christo’s death in 2006, Fergus has continued to move the garden forward, focused on educating the next generation of gardeners and always eager to experiment. Here, he shares the 50 plants he loves the most

HIDDEN TALENTS • Ken Thompson looks at some of the intriguing – and often less than obvious – ways in which plants have adapted to survive and thrive

Tough stuff • A series of dedicated women have transformed a scrubby hillside near Athens into a remarkable, experimental garden filled with resilient Mediterranean plants from all over the world

SUZI TURNER & MOY FIERHELLER • Having worked together since college, Suzi (left) and Moy now job-share as deputy head gardeners for the walled garden at Knepp Castle

ERANTHIS • Bring bright, sunny colour to your late-winter garden with the earliest flowers of the year, which will spread to create golden carpets under trees

How to grow winter aconites

Small pleasures • Award-winning designer Jo Thompson kicks off a new container-planting series with three enchanting early spring flower combinations

Shock of the new • Maverick plantsperson Harald Sauer has burst on to the international horticultural scene with his bold, norm-breaking approach to planting in public parks in Germany

MARK SPENCER • The world-renowned botanist on his sideline in crime fighting, getting a doctorate in his thirties and the potential of mushrooms to tackle climate change

A BORDER FROM SEED • Designer Sam Taylor-Hunt shares his design for a vibrant, perennial, meadow-style scheme you can sow direct from seed, with advice on how to create this exciting new type of planting

SNOWDROP CENTRAL • The annual Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival in Somerset is the place to be for galanthophiles this month

BACK TO LIFE • Andrew Shaw has a passion for rare British natives, even bringing things back from the dead

Love seats • Bring some romance to your garden with our selection of garden seats for two

DOWNTOOLS • Katy Merrington’s top plant books, competition, the crossword and Alice Vincent

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Crossword

FOND OF THE FROND • Self-confessed pteridomaniac Alice Vincent has long been fascinated by ferns and has grown to love the serene, green beauty they bring to the garden