Re: Gardens Illustrated

Title: Re: Gardens Illustrated
Gardens Illustrated, for whom I've written occasionally since it lauched over ten years ago, actually sells as many copies in the US and in the UK.

It combines stylish design and planting ideas with plant profiles (I've done them on Barnhaven primroses, anemones and hollyhocks) and is definitely at the modernistic end of the spectrum. Compare with English Garden, which sells more copies in the US than the UK and which is far more traditional in its approach.

Gardens Illustrated, originally launched by one of the smaller magazine publishing companies, has been bought by the magazine branch of the BBC and while the style will not be changing dramatically I think it will certainly gain a higher profile and be easier to find. It's usually on sale in Barnes & Noble (along with BBC Gardeners' World magazine, its mass-market sister). It's excellent, with regular content on perennials - in fact the magazine sponsored the top garden at Chelsea last year (designed by Dutch designer/nurseryman Piet Oudolf) which particularly featured perennials.

Graham Rice
Northamptonshire, UK

Hello Hazel,
    Thanks for the input on the magazine. Three different titles of gardening
magazines published in United Kingdom have popped up on the various lists I belong
to this week. I plan a trip this week to a good book store to see if I can find
all three and take a look, purchase copies to bring home and go through
thoroughly.
    I must confess that in the past I have ignored English garden writers for much
of the plant material they cover simply will not make it here where I garden.
    Thanks,
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Hazel Bartlett-Griffiths <weejock@mcmedia.com.au>
Subject: Re: Gardens Illustrated


> Hi Gene
> we are talkin top quality magazine.  i subscribe to it - in Australia - you
> wont get a better garden mag - except the new zealand garden mag
> and i read everything gardening i can get my hands on
> Hazel


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