Gardens Illustrated – September 2022

The September issue of Gardens Illustrated features gardens that are open to doing things differently. At a vineyard in Kent, designer Marian Boswall has created a sustainable garden reusing as many of the site’s materials as possible, while a family garden by Miria Harris expertly forges a link between a Victorian villa and its contemporary additions. Inspired by Gertrude Jekyll, Richard Hartlage has created an imaginative garden in New England, while in a small city courtyard in Cambridge, Colm Joseph has used a bold but pared back palette of materials and plants. The owner of a Cotswold garden continually learns from her ever-evolving planting schemes, while in East Sussex, a passion for propagation led to the creation of a nursery business. Three top designers have given us plans for creating bulb meadows – long-season schemes that will reappear year after year – and plant expert John Grimshaw advises on growing elegant and colourful Hesperantha. Head gardener Jenny Barnes creates three container displays to see out summer, Alys Fowler gives advice on supporting our soil through winter and our new columnist Alice Vincent muses on the need to continually edit a garden.