# Gardens Illustrated Magazine — Garden Design & Inspiration

> Gardening magazine featuring global gardens, plants, designers, and inspiration. (iPhone/iPad app by Our Media Limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardens-illustrated-magazine/id487573767 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Our Media Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/1702229453)
- Category: Lifestyle, Magazines & Newspapers
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 86 App Store ratings · 65 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 56 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany)
- Released: 2012-04-13
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardens-illustrated-magazine/id487573767/reviews.md

## What is Gardens Illustrated Magazine?

Gardens Illustrated features the best gardens, plants and designers around the world, making it a must for the discerning gardener.

Published 13 times a year, it offers an irresistible mix of beautiful gardens and must-have plants. With stunning photography and the world's best garden writing, it offers you information and insights you won't find elsewhere. 

Subscriptions and Single Issues.

Customers can buy single issues and subscriptions using In App Purchase.
 
Subscriptions are available on monthly or annual terms.
 
• Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period 
• You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for that product 
• You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase 
• No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. This does not affect your statutory rights
• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription
• The app may offer a free trial. At the end of the free trial period, the full price of the subscription will be charged thereafter. Cancellations must occur 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Visit http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information.

The subscription will include the current issue if you do not already own it and subsequently published future issues. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. 

If you would like more information or support please visit our App support page https://www.ourmediaapps.co.uk/apps-faqs/

Our Media Ltd Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: 
https://policies.ourmedia.co.uk/privacy-policy/ 
https://policies.ourmedia.co.uk/website-terms-and-conditions/ 

* please note: this digital edition does not include the covermount gifts or supplements you would find with printed copies*

## Key features

- Best gardens worldwide
- Plant features
- Designer profiles
- Stunning photography
- Expert garden writing
- Single issue purchases
- Subscription options

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 6-Month Subscription | $24.99 | per 6 months |
| 1-Month Subscription | $5.49 | per month |
| Discounted Annual Subscription | $41.99 | per year |
| 12-Month Subscription Bundle | $43.99 | per year |
| 12-Month Subscription | $49.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| May 2012 | $4.99 | one-time |
| February 2013 | $4.99 | one-time |
| April 2013 | $4.99 | one-time |
| June 2013 | $4.99 | one-time |
| August 2014 | $4.99 | one-time |
| Complete Your Collection | $59.99 | one-time |
| February 2025 | $5.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Gardens Illustrated Magazine?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- ✨ Inspiring articles and photography
- 👍 Easy to navigate sections
- 📚 Great content and horticultural information
- 🖼️ Beautifully presented magazine
- 💡 Useful tips and advice
- 📱 Handy for travel
- 🌟 High quality content
- ❤️ Superb horticultural content
- ✨ Inspirational photography
- 📖 Wonderful articles
- 🖼️ Sensational photographs
- 👍 Easy app to use
- 🌟 Delight to read
- 👍 Great magazine
- 🤩 Inspiring garden designs
- 📚 Informative content
- 📸 Skilled photography
- ✨ Inspiring magazine
- 📸 Lovely pictures
- 👍 Good app
- 🤩 Dreamy magazine
- 📸 Beautifully photographed
- 📖 Thoughtful content and layouts
- 📖 Well written articles
- 👍 Top class magazine
- 📸 Beautiful photography
- 🌟 Must read for inspiration
- 🤩 Wonderful articles to hand
- 👍 Easy to navigate
- ✨ Lovely photographs
- 📖 Well designed magazine
- 👍 Good quality

**Cons**

- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App freezes often
- 🐛 App locks up
- 🐛 Issues downloading content
- 🐛 Downloaded issues become unavailable
- 🐛 Have to re-download purchased issues
- 🐛 Subscription issues
- 🐛 Login problems
- 🐛 Annoying pop-ups for back issues
- 🐛 App doesn't work with latest OS
- 🐛 Slow download times
- 🐛 Horizontal viewing gone
- 🐛 App makes magazine look like a website/blog
- 🐛 Text typeset separately from images
- 🐛 Scroll down like a blog
- 🐛 Requires signing in every time
- 🐛 Lost bookmarks and folders
- 🐛 Purchase system issues
- 🐛 Continuous subscription charges
- 🐛 Unable to cancel subscription
- 🐛 App doesn't load issues
- 🐛 Blank issues after purchase
- 🐛 Poor customer service
- 🐛 Mispricing of collections
- 🐛 App doesn't recognize iTunes subscriptions
- 🐛 App crashes on subscription heading
- 🐛 Not accessible as previous digital form
- 🐛 Can't get it in landscape
- 🐛 Small viewing on iPhone
- 🐛 Too much advertising
- 🐛 Digital copy costs extra
- 🐛 Copy more or less vapid

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes
- App freezes
- App locks up
- Downloaded issues become unavailable
- Downloaded issues need to be re-purchased
- Subscription issues
- Login problems
- App doesn't load issues
- Blank issues after purchase
- App doesn't work with latest OS
- Slow download times
- Horizontal viewing gone
- App crashes on subscription heading
- Lost bookmarks and folders after app upgrade
- App doesn't recognize iTunes subscriptions
- Requires signing in every time the app is opened
- App makes magazine look like a website or blog
- Text typeset separately to the images
- Scrolling down like a blog
- Continuous subscription charges
- Unable to cancel subscription
- App doesn't load
- Issues load as blank
- No one gets back from app support
- Mispricing of collections
- App crashes and doesn't recognize iTunes subscriptions
- Newest update issues
- Horizontal viewing is gone
- Issue download time is slow
- Doesn't load
- Loses subscription
- Find it hard to log in
- Special Jan 19 edition download failure
- All bought Gardens Illustrated Gone!
- App crashes and doesn’t recognize iTunes subscriptions
- Newest update issues!
- Latest update has bugs
- Crashes every time I tap on subscription heading
- Horizontal viewing is gone
- Issue download time is so slow
- Doesn't load
- Bought two issues, both load as blank
- No one gets back to you from their app support
- Loses your subscription
- Find it hard to log in
- Terminate my subscription at the end of the year and subscribe again
- Constantly crashing
- Keeps crashing
- Poor service
- Paid over $48 to get back issues and was never able to download
- Too slow and crashes often
- App is slow and crashes or freezes often
- It doesn't work on my iPad
- Customer service has been working for a while to fix this problem
- Too much advertising for subscription
- All my saved folders and bookmarks wiped
- Great magazine; horrible app
- The app crashes and locks up to point you can't view any magazines or even access their support
- Deleted and started over to re download purchased issues
- Takes a long time and now app has frozen again
- Great magazine...online version locks up
- The app hangs up, locks up, and is frustrating to the point I do not read the magazine
- I like the magazine but not the purchase system
- Received a continuous subscription for which I have been continuously charged
- Contacted the App creators by email and by phone to correct this problem but no one contacted me back
- Believe I am still being charged for an unending subscription which I'm not using and have been unable to cancel it
- Avoid this app
- Updated my app as requested- it just deleted my entire back catalogue!
- Scam
- Needs an update
- This was working fine under IOS7, but won't now open under IOS8
- Needs a fix!

**Most requested features**

- Option to read in landscape mode
- Version for Microsoft Surface Pro
- Indexing to search back issues
- More interactive content
- Dark mode option
- Ability to stop constant requests to purchase back issues

## Recent user reviews (10 of 65)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardens-illustrated-magazine/id487573767/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Gardens Illustrated magazine

*2021-02-24*

When Gardens Illustrated moved its magazine to the App I was a bit unsure if it would be as accessible as the previous digital form of the magazine. Now I have had the App for 2 months and love it. The magazine is still there, but plenty of extras and it’s very easy to navigate through different sections of the magazine, so that I can dip in and out rather than flick through the magazine page by page. I love all the inspiring articles and beautiful garden photography, even though I garden in Australia on the other side of the world.

### 5/5 — A lovely interlude

*2021-02-16*

I love opening up the articles during my working day and absorbing the details and imagery. It brings me to a new place and inspires me to get stuck in when I can get out in the dirt.

### 1/5 — Nuisance

*2021-01-03*

I probably won’t bother to renew do the the annoying fact that you have to sign in everytime you open the app.

### 4/5 — Complete your collection

*2020-11-28*

I’m invited to complete my collection for a fee but as I took the same offer some years ago to fill some gaps in my subscriptions, AppStore/GI tell me I’ve already purchased it, but this is a new request! Apple Support have been unable to resolve issue and so here I am asking the developers... please. Cheers

### 1/5 — Incredibly disappointed in the way it looks

*2020-08-01*

This app makes a beautiful magazine look like a website or blog and it’s very disappointing. I tried a sample on the kindle app on my iPad and it looked great, like turning the pages of the mag, and I could still zoom in etc. So I downloaded the official Gardens Illustrated app and purchased a subscription through it, thinking it would be the same and it’s definitely not. Text is typeset separately to the images and you have to scroll down like a blog. I’m over looking at blogs, I wanted a magazine but without the storage issues, as I’d like to keep it for reference. Am I getting a setting or preference wrong or the app? I’d really like it to look like the sample I saw.

### 1/5 — The new Format is horrible

*2020-06-25*

No idea why the changed the format. It ruins the whole experience of reading a magazine.

**Developer response:** Hi there, 

Sorry to hear you are not enjoying our upgraded App experience. We hope to deliver our magazine content in a format that is optimised for reading on both mobile and tablet devices, while bringing useful features including search, text adjust and bookmarking. Thank you for your feedback, however, and we will continue to optimise the customer experience.

### 5/5 — Quality gone digital

*2020-06-24*

I subscribe to Gardens Illustrated because I wanted to avoid paper storage
I can look at the magazine on my phone and iPad
And it’s the same glossy mag
With beautiful inspirational articles, news and pictures

### 5/5 — Brilliant

*2020-05-13*

Awesome value and superb horticultural content. Very high quality ❤️👍

### 1/5 — Worst app on my iPad

*2019-10-18*

This app is by far the worst app on my iPad. It frequently refuses to allow access to my downloaded magazine editions. This necessitates restoring purchases and losing bookmarks. No joke when I purchased all the digital back issues.

### 5/5 — Gardens Illistrated

*2019-09-13*

I subscribe to 5 garden magazines. Gardens Illistrated is my favorite.
My one complaint is that I can’t get it in landscape. It is so much easier to read when you can turn the phone sideways and read whole sentences in print large enough to see.

## Frequently asked questions about Gardens Illustrated Magazine

### What is Gardens Illustrated Magazine about?

Gardens Illustrated Magazine features the best gardens, plants, and designers from around the world. It offers an irresistible mix of beautiful gardens and must-have plants, combined with stunning photography and expert garden writing to provide unique insights and inspiration for gardeners.

### How can I purchase content from the app?

You can purchase single issues of the magazine or subscribe to the service directly within the app using In App Purchase. Subscriptions are available on monthly or annual terms.

### What are the subscription options and renewal policies?

Subscriptions are available on monthly or annual terms. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.

### Can I cancel my subscription?

You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Cancellations must occur 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged.

### Does the digital edition include covermount gifts?

No, please note that this digital edition does not include the covermount gifts or supplements that you would find with printed copies of the magazine.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 8.5 — 2026-04-02

This update includes bugfixes and necessary compatibility improvements. Please download to ensure your app remains fully functional.

### 8.4 — 2025-07-23

This update includes bugfixes and necessary compatibility improvements. Please download to ensure your app remains fully functional.

### 8.3 — 2023-08-02

We are always making improvements to our app, so keep updating to make sure you're on the latest version. This new update includes general bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 8.2 — 2022-12-22

Our latest update contains a log in bug fix to make your app experience as smooth and enjoyable as possible. We are always making improvements to our app, so keep updating to make sure you're on the latest version.

### 8.0 — 2022-11-10

Thanks for using our app! In our latest update you’ll find notable performance improvements to make our app run faster and give you a more reliable reading experience.

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