title: English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition
author:  Margaret Hensel 
description: English Cottage Gardening for American Gardners is an excellent primer. Hensel explains what constitutes the look and how to achieve it, and offers heartening accounts of people starting from scratch. -- <i>House Beautiful Magazine</i><br /><br />Margaret Hensel is a garden designer. She suggest plant combinations and groupings, how to place certain plants to gain the most impact and the importance of foliage texture and form. She points out design principles such as proportions of mass and height in relation to the size of the borders; the importance of creating vistas.
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  PLANTS
  FOR AN ENGLISH 
  COUNTRY GARDEN
  by Rosemary Alexander
  GARDENS
  PLANTING IDEAS • BEAUTIFUL GARDENS • EXPERT ADVICE 15% OFF
  PLANTS  
  PAGE 111
  
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  We share some very special recipes from 
  Dalemain Marmalade Festival, page 68.
  The first of a four-part series about Mary Keen’s 
  garden looks at winter structure, page 50.
  editor’s letter
  CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
  FERGUS GARRETT
  Plantsman and head 
  gardener at Great  
  Dixter in East Sussex.
  CAROL KLEIN
  Plantswoman and 
  presenter of BBC 
  Gardeners’ World.
  DAN PEARSON
  Garden designer, 
  plantsman and  
  columnist. 
  DANIEL J HINKLEY
  American plantsman,  
  planthunter, horticultural 
  writer and lecturer.
  ALYS FOWLER
  Kew-trained gardener,  
  author and television 
  presenter. 
  JASON INGRAM, ANDREW MONTGOMERY
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