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Up Front

Look around. Essential viewing: the incredible world of soil

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events

Showcase

UK Design. Discovering pre-registered SGLD member Colm Joseph's statement design for a Victorian walled garden in Suffolk

Planting Design. How to design successful indoor gardens

Professional Skills: What drives you forward? Fresh ideas and innovation are key, says Sean Butler MSGLD

Technology. Designing with augmented reality technology, PLUS, a new app to measure biodiversity

Regulars

Member project. Pre-registered SGLD member Michael John McGarr's design for a public garden in Wigan

Point of View. How do we broach the subject of money, asks John Wyer FSGLD

SGLD Updates. A new name, a new logo and bold plans for SGLD in 2025

Round Up. The best garden design books

Point of interest. On the creation of a new biodiverse site within the grounds of Georgia Tech, Atlanta

Up front

Look around. Find the source of life in gardens at Chaumont 2024.

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase

UK Design. How Tracy McQue MSGD has created a showstopper of a front garden in Edinburgh.

SGD awards 2025. Meet the runners and riders shortlisted for the Main Awards.

Inside Track. A horticultural road trip through Yorkshire with pre-registered SGD member Darryl Moore.

Planting Design. Pre-registered SGD member Nicholas Atherton's template for biophilic design in schools.

Regulars

Member project. pre-registered SGD member Holly Birtles' regenerative landscape design for an office near Exeter.

Point of view. John Wyer FSGD asks, at what point is a garden finished?

Round up. The best garden design books.

Point of interest. On establishing Tom Massey MSGD's RES insect laboratory garden at London's Stratford Cross.

Up Front

Look Around. Restoring Britain's temperate forests

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase

International garden history. Discover Karl Foerster and his naturalistic garden.

Planting. Heritage Foerster plants still in use today.

Professional skills: Trees. Helen Ilks-Smith FSGD on the importance of tree selection.

Professional skills: Mentoring. Professional helping hands: how to reap the dividends.

Look back. Discovering the wonderful world of ecological horticulture with Joe Perkins MSGD and pre-registered SGD member Chloe Hamblen.

Industry zone. Kit list: what every new designer needs to go to work.

Regulars

Member project. A garden for people with dementia, by pre-registered SGD member Christina Sullivan.

Point of view. John Wyer FSGD on the pitfalls of using social media.

Round up. The best garden design books.

Point of interest. Any Sturgeon FSGD's new garden at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire.

Folded into the landscape

Masterplanning 44 gardens for a hillside

Waltham Place: Biodynamic by design

Remediating a tarmac driveway

Making Connections

Whose garden is it? And do we need to see it in a different light?

Feeling Gardens: Drawing by Hand

How to protect your intellectual property

Nature, Nature, everywhere

What the plant hunter saw

Making garden meadows

Biodiversity net gain: first contact

Up Front.

Britain's temperate rainforests rediscovered.

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase.

UK Design. How Adam Vetere MSGD made a virtue out of a precipice in a Berkshire family garden.

RHS Chelsea 2024. This year's hero plants, a water-neutral show garden, PLUS designing with sculpture.

Insight. Comminity gardens activist Tayshan Hayden-Smith discovers The Onion Garden.

Professional Skills. PART II Legacy planning in garden design: strategies.

Resources for Designers. The Serge Hill Project's Plant Library.

SGD Updates. Name-change proposal; say 'No' to Plastic Grass campaign, one year on; out and about with Cluster Groups.

Regulars.

Member Project. SGD Friend Sophia Andreski on making a sloping garden suitable for disability.

Point of View. We need to talk about sustainability says John Wyer FSGD.

Round Up. Our pick of new and essential garden books.

Up Front.

Look Around. Asian hornets - a significant threat to pollinators.

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase.

UK Design. SGD Student Amber Hine's design to transform a concrete car port into a green space.

RHS Chelsea 2024. Robert Myers MSGD's churchyard-inspired show garden; a super timber shed for NGS; PLUS, using hempcrete.

Professional Skills. NEW SERIES: Marcus Foster MSGD on legacy planning in garden design.

Look Back. SOILSCON 2024: Helen Elks-Smith FSGD calls for Soil Protection Orders.

Planting. Are 'bee-' or 'wildlife friendly' plants an invertebrate's best friend?

SGD Awards 2025. Who's who on the judging panel, PLUS, how does the competition work.

Regulars.

Member Project. Richard Miers MSGD's design for a flood-resilient garden on the banks of the River Thames.

Point of View. Does RHS Chelsea still serve its purpose? John Wyer FSGD asks.

Round Up. Our pick of new and essential garden books.

Up Front.

Look Around. New global study on the cooling effect of green spaces.

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase.

UK Design. Level changes and mature planting.

Cover Story: Planting. How wild shrubscapes are inspiration for gardens of the future.

SGD Spring Conference. Putting the sustainable garden design process under the microscope.

SGD Awards 2025. Entry deadlines are fast approaching.

Regulars.

Member Project. Pre-registered member Suzy Dean's low-carbon woodland show garden.

Point of View. John Wyer FSGD asks what could we do with that parking space?

Letters. Readers' thoughts and experiences.

SGD Updates. Routes to MSGD status; replacement for Heather's Model.

Round Up. Our choice of essential garden books.

Point of Interest. Enhancing biodiversity.

Up Front.

Look Around. Designers opening for the National Garden Scheme.

Newsprint.

Cover Story.

The Main Awards. Discover who has won what, including Garden of the Year and the People's Choice awards,

Student Awards shortlist.

Student Awards winners.

A lifetime Achievement. Recipient of the 2024 LA Award, Professor James Hitchmough, talks about his efforts to create ecologically sound landscapes.

SGD Spring Conference. Tickets on sale now.

Regulars.

Member Project. Nicholas Dexter MSGD updates an original design by John Brookes MBE.

Point of view. John Wyer FSGD considers the skills gap in horticulture.

UK Design news.

Round up. Our choice of essential garden books.

Up Front

Look Around. Hedge planting for the New Year.

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase

UK Design. Opportunity knocks designing gardens for people who rent.

UK Design news. Boosting access to green space, and SGD designers at RHS Chelsea 2024.

Professional Skills. Insider tips on creating show gardens for BBC Gardeners' World shows; PLUS, Matthew Haddon MSGD on delivering green infrastructure.

Insight. Following the SGD's Autumn 2023 conference, what does your garden say about you?

Industry zone. Tech talk: using drones in garden design.

Look Back. FutureScape 2023 revisited.

Regulars

Member Project. Sarah Barraud MSGD on turning a former farmyard into a garden.

Point of View. We need to talk about travel, says John Wyer FSGD.

Round Up. Our choice of fine garden reading.

Point of interest. Creating a welcoming landscape for visitors to Glenkinchie Distillery.

Up Front

Look around. Hoping for glory at Battersea Power Station.

Newsprint. Industry news, awards and events.

Showcase

UK Design. Pre-registered SGD member Steve Williams and co-designer Jon Davies discuss their carbon-negative landscape design for a site in north-east London.

SGD Accreditation. On the Structured Pathway to MSGD - participant feedback.

Industry zone. Soil special.

Professional Skills. Creating a scene - Luke Thomas's expert garden lighting advice.

Regulars

Member project. A family garden in Sussex redesigned by Bo Cook MSGD.

Point of view. Can we go wild in the garden, asked John Wyer FSGD.

Round up. Our choice of fine garden reading, and remembering Jeffrey Bernhard.

Point of interest. Tom Stuart-Smith OBE FSGD's design for a podium site beneath London's St Paul's Cathedral.