The English Garden Magazine

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The obvious pairing first: this is the sister title to The English Home, from the same publisher, and the two work exactly the way you’d guess – one does the inside of the house, this one does everything beyond the back door. Plenty of our customers end up with both.

On its own terms, The English Garden is a tour magazine at heart. Every issue visits real gardens around Britain and Ireland – grand ones attached to old estates, but just as often a plantsman’s half-acre or a village garden that happens to be exceptional – photographed properly and explained by the people who actually tend them. The head gardener interviews are a quiet highlight. These are people who’ve spent thirty years on one patch of ground, and they talk like it.

The practical side is genuinely usable rather than decorative. Seasonal planting ideas, features built around specific plants – roses, dahlias, snowdrops in their season – and honest advice about what thrives in which conditions. Chelsea Flower Show coverage lands every year, as you’d expect.

American readers take note: like its sister magazine, this one travels well. The inspiration transfers even where the climate doesn’t quite.

If your idea of a good Sunday involves a garden, either yours or someone else’s, this belongs on the pile.