Garden stories

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LITERARY GARDENS

GARDEN STORIES

The imagined gardens within the pages of our favourite

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Country Homes & Interiors Magazine

02 October, 2025

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The English Garden

A matter of intention

‘ Her dream house was surrounded by gardens: a berry garden, an apricot garden, a cherry garden, a persimmon garden, a potato garden, a vegetable garden and a huge compost.” Ana Roš, a passionate rock

The Critic

Timeless wisdom

Marian Boswall seeks design inspiration in classic and new gardening texts

Writing Magazine

Place markers

An old man lives at the bottom of my garden. His name is Robert Barkus, or Bakehouse, or Bagust. Nobody is quite sure. But I often sense him around when I’m gardening, and I’ve found out a fair bit ab

The writer Daphne du Maurier was fascinated by the English country house. Jeremy Musson explores her evocation of these buildings with the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice

Gardens Illustrated

Gardens illustrated’s gardening books of the year 2025

COLOUR IN THE GARDEN : STYLISH IDEAS FOR YEAR-ROUND COLOUR by Lucy Bellamy Mitchell Beazley, £25 ISBN 978-1784729349 ‘I am hungry for colour. I want jam red and acid yellow, violet blue and caterpilla