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The Garden
November 2007
Volume 132; Part 12

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

COVER
 

A rime of frost bejewels every detail of the structure of a long-faded umbellifer flower

Image: Garden World Images/T Sims
News 779
Letters 785
Garden talk 
Ursula Buchan on The Glasshouse at RHS Wisley, Annabel Downs on archiving, and Rebecca Matthews-Joyce on recycling pots
778

Cover Story: Rediscover sweet Williams
With introductions of new annual and biennial cultivars, is this cottage garden favourite overdue for revival?
NIGEL COLBORN 

790

Open all hours 
How the public garden at Malmö Castle, southern Sweden, acts both as a community resource and therapeutic workplace
TOBY MUSGROVE

794

Herbaceous innovation
Perennial plantings at Sheffield Botanical Gardens provide colour over an extended period, yet are simple to maintain 
NIGEL DUNNETT

798

Sue’s lakeside safari
A dramatic sloping border, drawing heavily from South African flora, on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall 
MERRIEL GARDINER 

804

A natural remedy
Wild flowers colonise a once-toxic Victorian industrial wasteland
ROY LANCASTER 

806

Cover Story: Transformation scene
How heavy frost makes magic of a planting in West Sussex 
CARRIE MCARDLE

810

Winning colours from Cambridge
Six of the best plants to light up the colder months, from one of the UK’s finest winter gardens 
TIM UPSON

814

Joined-up thinking
Analysing the success of a curvilinear garden in London with a strong, yet fluid and informal, groundplan 
CHRIS YOUNG

816

Nurseries to visit
Chiltern Seeds, Cumbria
ROY LANCASTER

822
Viewpoint 
The highs and lows of 2007
STEPH MARKHAM
826
RHS Advice
Expert advice on jobs and information for the month
828
Gardens to visit
A selection of gardens around Britain to see this month (download as a pdf 463KB)
Every other issue also comes with a pull-out booklet Diary of Events
834
Book reviews 837
Subject index 2007 
Download as a pdf (477KB)
838
Parting shot
The last Tsarina’s bouquet
VANESSA BERRIDGE 
842

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