title: How do I increase the spacing between subplots with subplot2grid?
body: <p>I use <code>subplot2grid</code> to make a subplot like the following:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zSK3G.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zSK3G.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>In order to make the ticks sufficiently large for publication, I need to increase the vertical and horizontal spacing between axes.</p>
  
  <p>Normally, I would use something like <code>subplot_adjust(hspace = 0.5)</code>, but that doesn't seem to work with <code>subplot2grid</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Could anyone please recommend a solution?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code I use to plot things and create the axes:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
  ax1  = plt.subplot2grid((2,2),(0,0), colspan = 2)
  ax2  = plt.subplot2grid((2,2),(1,0), colspan = 1)
  ax3  = plt.subplot2grid((2,2),(1,1), colspan = 1)
  
  df.plot( ax = ax1)
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>