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The Garden   
July 2008
Volume 133; Part 7

By clicking on the links below you can access a sample feature from The Garden, or additional information from that feature.

COVER
    Cover of the July issue

Stone ‘planets’ carved with numbers interpret cosmic evolution at Througham Court, Gloucestershire

Image: Clive Nichols 

News 433 
Letters 439 
Garden talk   
Ursula Buchan feels guilty about heating her glasshouse, Tim Richardson defends conceptual gardens and Jeremy Iles champions city farms and community gardens 
440 

Dazzling daylilies
Easy, adaptable and available in a surprising range of colours and flower shapes, there is a daylily for every garden
JAN WYERS

442 

From garden to kitchen
The second part of a short series examining seasonal garden produce and its uses in the kitchen
NIGEL SLATER

448 

The great Temple show
In September the RHS will stage an event at the Inner Temple in London, a venue that once was home to the Society’s Great Spring Show
PHIL CLAYTON

452 

Green is the colour
Looking at the gardens, plants and features that caught the attention of the editorial team at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

454 

Offshore account
A collection of barges moored on the River Thames make an unlikely green oasis in the middle of London
ANDREW WILSON

462 

Champion olives
Harvesting and curing olives from the venerable tree growing at the Chelsea Physic Garden
MARK POSWILLO

466 

Angels in flight
Dierama are among the most graceful of perennials, but which ones make the best garden plants?
NICK MACER

468 

Standing proud, holding court
The garden of an Arts and Crafts house in Gloucestershire holds a contemporary surprise
WIDGET FINN

472 

Nurseries
Waterside Nursery, Leicestershire
ROY LANCASTER

478 
RHS Advice
Expert advice on jobs and information for the month
482
Gardens to visit
A selection of gardens around Britain to see this month
Every other issue also comes with a pull-out booklet Diary of Events
488 
Book reviews 495 
Parting shot 
The Bicentennial Conservatory at Adelaide Botanic Garden
496 

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