The English Garden June 2025 Sample

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Mary Giblin has gardened all her life but after completing a design course, her new space has had the benefit of what she calls a ‘garden-changing’ approach

WORDS BARBARA SEGALL PHOTOGRAPHS ANNA OMIOTEK-TOTT

This image A view of the house from just beyond the allium-edged kitchen garden, enclosed by a metal estate-style fence. Opposite Existing hedges are now neatly trimmed and shelter colour-themed borders

Character STUDY

Passionate plant lover Jane Collins believes every specimen has its own character, which must be respected, and by playing to their strengths has made a charming froth of a garden at Orchard Cottage in East Sussex

WORDS PAULA MCWATERS PHOTOGRAPHS SARAH CUTTLE

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Colourful alliums, geraniums and geums,

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with Rosa ‘Violette’ and Clematis ‘Morning Star’. Opposite Long grass in a wild meadow area surrounds a bug hotel.
Lilac scabious studs the meadow grass, beneath a shapely Betula ‘Fascination’ at Tythe Barn in Oxford.

GOLDEN Wonders

Wonderlands by Clare Coulson explores the glorious gardens of 18 renowned landscape architects. In this exclusive extract from her book, she visits the North Wiltshire home of Catherine FitzGerald and Dominic West

WORDS CLARE COULSON PHOTOGRAPHS ÉVA NÉMETH

A Tall Order

In the space behind the modest row of cottages where he lives on the outskirts of Leeds, so called ‘Delphinium Dad’ Colin Parton has established the most incredible National Collection of towering Delphinium elatum cultivars

WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS NICOLA STOCKEN

Colin Parton’s impressive National Collection of 106 Delphinium elatum cultivars, which he grows behind his home in Leeds.

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