The English Garden

Enjoy over 60 beautiful gardens a year with The English Garden. Every issue features country, city, cottage and coastal gardens, with advice on how to recreate them. Be inspired by articles written by the country's top garden designers and discover the best plant varieties for your garden, chosen by expert nurserymen and plantspeople.

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This Month • Our guide to plants, people, gardens and events, tasks and shopping in January

People to Meet • Introducing the gardeners and public figures we most admire in British horticulture

Out & About • Unmissable events, news and the very best gardens to visit this month

Things to Do • Jane Moore is treating her garden tools to the full spa treatment, cutting back unruly and overgrown shrubs and clearing the way for those first new bulbs

Beautiful & Useful • New plants, books, tools and creative designs, plus shopping inspiration

Aim High • A new year offering fresh possibilities may sound like a cliché, but the quiet still of winter lends itself to contemplating how you want your garden to be when spring does arrive. Stock the shed with all the essentials and invest in quality if anything needs to be replaced. This trellis for beloved climbers is a stylish upgrade. Barrington arch trellis, £80. Tel: 01993 845559; gardentrading.co.uk

Tree Seats • Natasha Goodfellow selects six of the best seats that encircle tree trunks, helping turn specimen trees in your garden into even more of a statement feature

PICTURE PERFECT • In the embrace of elliptical walls is the most painterly array of roses, grown to perfection by Rose Foyle at Carolside in the Scottish Borders

The Wild WITHIN • Sitting at the heart of this famously rewilded Sussex estate, the walled garden at Knepp is changing the way we think about biodiversity, sustainability and how we garden thanks to its pioneering redesign

LIVING LEGACY • Fiona Macphie brings fresh vision and vibrant planting to Glenbervie’s historic walled garden, continuing a 300-year tradition of horticultural excellence in Kincardineshire

The Gardener’s GARDEN • With its deep, abundantly planted borders, the restored walled garden at historic Norton Conyers in North Yorkshire has the sort of unmanicured authenticity that enchants visitors despite its grand scale

Fit for a QUEEN • Almost 160 years after playing host to Queen Victoria, grand Floors Castle has seen its historic gardens transformed into a living tapestry of colour, wildlife, and wonder, where every path leads to a new delight

THE BEST TOOLS TO BUY • Over on our website, theenglishgarden.co.uk, we’ve been putting power tools through their paces. Here you’ll find a round-up of the favourite tools we’ve tried and tested

Coming up Roses • Stars of the show at Norfolk’s Houghton Hall, roses add scent, colour and form all season long, and head gardener Richard Ernst has ten to recommend

Skeleton Crew • When winter comes and the garden is denuded of floral and foliar interest, the bare stems of shrubs and trees with striking forms or bright colours offer a very particular joy

Screen Time • Pleached trees are a designer go-to for screening, creating beautiful features and emphasising the garden’s underlying structure. Find expert advice on choosing the right variety, buying and caring for them or even training your own

Worth the Journey • From Dartmoor to Japan, these unforgettable destinations left a lasting mark on eight garden designers, who reveal how they helped shape their own creative development

Unfinished Business • Lying in an archive at a Californian library for decades, incomplete designs by William Morris and his protégé John Henry Dearle have been finessed and...