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Articles in this edition include:
Gold Medal for the Garden of Peace and Harmony.
Reflecting on Kazuyuki Ishihara’s garden at the 2026 Chelsea Flower Show.
Birmingham Botanical Gardens Update.
A Garden from Scratch: Part 1 – Thinking.
Japanese Gardens in Small Spaces.
Make September 2027 the time for exploring Scotland!
Shigemori’s Meandering Stream at Shido Temple.
The Stagecraft of the Bamboo Fence Course participants and Ueyakato staff at Tairyu-Sanso Garden. Photocredit: ©Ueyakato Landscape, Photos: Yujiro Sagami I’m a JGS member and landscape designer in the South
With Senior Gardener Steve Candy from Kingston Lacy Snowdrop planting. Here at Kingston Lacy, vast swathes of snowdrops have appeared and over the next few weeks we will be planting
Jobs of the Month, With Senior Gardener Steve Candy from Kingston Lacy Continue with the endless leaf clearing. We like to leave circles of leaves in the short term around
