A good magazine for cottage gardens is Country Gardens, they always have great photos and feature many different zones, it's a Better Homes and Gardens publication. It's my favorite magazine.

I like a magazine called "Garden Gate". They have a URL:
www.GardenGateMagazine.com

The focus is cottage gardens. They do a feature article on a plant for each issue. For instance, one article was all about clematis. The magazine is published bi-monthly.

Lorna

I second the BHG Country Gardens..My very favorite too!! I can look through these magazines over and over again.

I too like the BHG Country Gardens! I love the pics as well as the articles. I like reading about gardens but get disappointed when they don't have pics!

I love Country Gardens also but will quickly add....

Garden Gate
Backyard Living from the publishers of Birds N'Bloom
and any of BH&G's special publications throughout the year.....

Lynne

I love Garden Gate and Backyard Living. I take Sunset and BH&G and I have decided not to renew when it's time. I get tired of all the decorating, health and cooking articles. I find that stuff else ware. I like magazines that are about getting your hands dirty. I want stuff I can use in my own yard.

garden gate is no.1 favorite,then backyard living.
moonphase

I've stopped buying any but Garden Gate. NO ADVERTISEMENTS!!! That gets my vote every time.

Heather

I like Fine Gardening and the BH&G special publications, although those can be redundant. Garden Gate is ok but is geared more toward a novice gardener. I thumb through it and find myself thinking "been there, done that."

Birds N'Bloom is nice, too. It's wonderful to see so many gardeners sharing their gardens with wildlife.

Diana

I love Birds N'Bloom. Does Victoria count *tee hee* my most favorite.

Garden Gate! (I am a novice!)

Horticulture and Fine Gardening although I stopped my subscriptions. I have about 300 back issues of garden magazines. It is time to stop.

My favorite old one is Kitchen gardening or kitchen gardener.

GGG

I love Garden Gate. Because no ads. If you cut all th ads out of the other have maybe 15 pages. And I'm going to start getting Back Yard.

Country Gardens is my favorite too. When I have the opportunity I also like the special interest gardening magazines. All are published by BH&G.

MeMo

The English Garden and The Garden (RHS) both English gardening mags. The English Garden is full of glossy, full page garden porn, er, photos that is very inspirational. The Garden (RHS) actually has useful info that is in-depth on how to take care of different problems. Both are expensive, but gorgeous.

gotta garden, where can i subscribe to The Garden?

RHS is the Royal Horticultural Society of the UK. It's a garden charity that supports several national gardens, etc. The magazine is part of membership and is the only magazine I get where I feel I am actually learning something. Here are 2 links.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/eCommerce/individualmember.aspx

Here is a link that might be useful: RHS The Garden

my fave was country living gardener. i was so bummed when you couldnt get a subscription to it anymore. i also love country gardens and backyard gardener.
Tanya

Kitchenkelly, are you going to store those magazines in the morgue drawers?

: )
Diana

I've stopped renewing all of my mag subscriptions (can't stand to throw/give them away).

However, since I come here to the CG Forum, I don't need a magazine! LOL Lots of personal sharing of real-life experiences in real-life gardens with fantastic photos.

Cameron

Hey angelcub! How the heck are you? (Don't be mentioning the drawers. I was going to pretend to be a normal person on this forum.)

"Don't be mentioning the drawers. I was going to pretend to be a normal person on this forum."

Why, no one else is. : ) Glad you came over! You'll fit right in.

And I'm doing great. My roses are all starting to bloom, which makes me extremely happy. DH is putting the finishing touches on the hutch area of the kitchen. What, you thought we were all done. lol! I will have new pics soon (I hope).

Btw, we are thinking of a few morgue drawers for the laundry room. We are going to raise the W&D (front loaders - very deep) so I suggested to DH that we should put some drawers underneath instead of just a solid platform for them to sit on. He's game so I'll let you know how it goes. : )

Diana

I really like Fine Gardening - don't learn too much but love to drool over all the pictures.

Only thing is they tend reprint the same gardens over and over - I guess these are some of their regular writers and that's why there is some redundancy with pictures.

I like Gottagarden's suggestion of that English Magazine.

I forgot Hortcuture.I don't subscribe this one right now but it is a very good garden mag.I disagree with angelclub about garden gate being for a novice.I have been gardening over 30 yrs and still learn from this magazine,,it is very informative.
moonphase

I kinda like one of the special pubs called Cottage Living. It covers not only the gardens but also the cottag-y style of living. I like the retro spreads they do and the small cottage garden ideas. It may not necessarily always be informative per se, but it is definitely eye candy. Cheryl

I only subscribe to one mag and I really love it from cover to cover, its called Harrowsmith, I never throw them out, always full of great ideas for gardening and good living with a good dose of humour, M

angelcub, I will be watching for the pics!

Garden Gate.
Nothing but gardening.
Nocive yes, but if you can duplicate any of their gardens...
You'll look like a pro.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions - I just went online and subscribed to Country Gardens and Garden Gate.