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Up Front

Look around: the Garden Literary Festival 2025 heads west

Newsprint: Industry news, awards and events

Showcase

Planting I: Hannah Gardner on planting a long-lasting and diverse bulb garden

UK Design: how shade and a walnut tree helped Jane Brockbank MSGLD creater her take on an Eastern stroll garden

Planting II: garden plant nemeses, greatest regrets, and desert island must-haves

Professional Skills I: The tree matters, part IV. We need to talk about natives and non-natives, says Helen Elks-Smith FSGLD

Professional Skills II: in-person courses to muddy the hands and inspire the soul

Regulars

Member project: James Scott FSGLD on re-invigorating the Long Garden at Cliveden

Point of View: John Wyer FSGLD cogitates on Biodiversity Net Gain

SGLD Updates: after-party news, the how's and why's to enter the SGLD Awards 2026, and make it a date for Symposium 2025

Round Up: the best garden books for the garden + landscape designers

Point of interest: the Nature School in the woods

Up Front

Look Around: sniffing out plant disease with canine detectives

Newsprint: industry news, awards and events

Showcase

SGD Awards 2025:

The Main Awards - All the winning designs, and what the judges thought of them

The Student Awards - The shortlist and the winners in full

The trophies - The inside story behind this year's stunning trophies

Lifetime Achievement Award - Dan Pearson OBE FSGLD reflects on his career thus far

Planting: ethereal gardens offer a different path, says Ed O'Brien

Professional Skills: Trees matter, part III - Helen Elks-Smith FSGLD on new insights into using RPA calculations

Regulars

Member Project: Tom Stuart-Smith OBE FSGLD's design for a major new public garden overlooking the city of Edinburgh

Point of View: garden and landscape design - is there a difference? asks John Wyer FSGLD

SGLD Updates: a round-up of expert top tips from Sustainability Bitesize

Point of Interest: a sensitive renovation of a landmark Victorian garden in Aberdeen

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.