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Gardens Illustrated: The New Beautiful

Inspiring Gardens for a Resilient Future
By Editors Of Gardens Illustrated, The and Piet Oudolf
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Gardens Illustrated: The New Beautiful is today’s most popular gardening periodical, renowned for its lavishly photographed features on contemporary, forward-thinking gardens that focus on irresistible plants and clever designs. Through these gardens, each selected by the magazine’s editors for a truly exceptional trait, readers will explore... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The first book from today's leading garden magazine, renowned for its stylish features, outstanding photography, and top-notch garden writing full of insights and advice. The editors have selected over fifty of their favorite gardens in a mix of scales and in a variety of climates to appeal to garden enthusiasts everywhere.

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Gardens Illustrated: The New Beautiful is today’s most popular gardening periodical, renowned for its lavishly photographed features on contemporary, forward-thinking gardens that focus on irresistible plants and clever designs.

Through these gardens, each selected by the magazine’s editors for a truly exceptional trait, readers will explore the best new gardens from the United States, United Kingdom, and around the world. The scales range from small city spaces aiming to bring biodiversity deep into the built environment to country estates photographed with a focus on ecology and sustainability. These gardens are created by today’s top garden designers, including Andrea Cochran, Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Peter Korn, Dan Pearson, Andy Salter, Tom Stuart-Smith, Andy Sturgeon, Urquhart & Hunt, and Keith Wiley.

From loose, waving gardens that resemble unexpected mini meadows supporting wildlife in small urban backyards to pleached hornbeams that act as a living fence distinguishing the borders of a lush patio from the landscape beyond, this book showcases gardens with new ideas for hardscape, pathways, fountains, and pergolas. Readers will find hundreds of ideas for incorporating successful plant combinations and other design elements into their own home gardens.

Text by the best garden writers provides ample plant identification information and tips for successful growth. Most importantly, it offers insight into how these top designers conceived and implemented the ideas that make each featured garden a place full of memorable atmosphere, charm, and relaxation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780847874262

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications

Illustration: 350 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 480

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Editors Of Gardens Illustrated, The Home & Garden Non-Fiction Piet Oudolf

About the Author

Gardens Illustrated magazine, today led by editor Stephanie Mahon, has quickly risen to become the preeminent publication on gardens and garden design since its founding in London in 1993. It prides itself on being a high-quality magazine produced by garden writers, designers, historians, and keen gardeners and reaches a readership that includes professionals as well as avid home gardeners of every taste and persuasion. It has had an enormous impact on horticulture throughout the United Kingdom and beyond. It was awarded the top podcast and publication of the year at the 2023 Garden Media Guild Awards. Piet Oudolf is a Dutch garden designer renowned for his New Perennial style plantings on the High Line in New York City, in Chicago's Lurie Garden, on Belle Isle in Detroit, at the Hauser & Wirth gallery and Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom, and many other locations across the U.S. and Europe.

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