The Gardener Magazine

The Gardener is a monthly, national magazine dedicated to inspiring gardeners, providing practical advice and showing step-by-step garden projects. Our monthly features include garden design, in-depth plant features, growing vegetables and herbs, water gardening, garden wildlife and pets, specialist plant articles and much more. We have an extensive database on our website that is growing daily.

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Dirt DIARIES

THE GARDEN AT NEW INN FARM

3 Urban-friendly Trees • We always demand a lot from trees when we want them to grow where we live in our small gardens in towns and cities. We want them to grow fast and high, with a narrow columnar silhouette, screening us from curious eyes, wind and noise pollution.

Spring essentials

A Garden for generations • The donation of an iconic sculpture and the need to make a statement at the entrance to the main buildings at Michaelhouse have led to the creation of a sublime landscape.

CHELSEAS DESIGN STORIES • Garden Design, at Chelsea this year, reflected a deep compassion for the hardships and survival of people, and an active and engaging preservation of intricate and elaborate ecosystems.

The Story of Our Award-Winning Garden Centre

GCA COMPETITION Winners 2024

RHS MANCHESTER URBAN SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 2024

4 effective strategies

FABULOUS vygies • Vygies reward with gratitude those who plant them in spring by bursting into flower with a glowing brilliance unrivalled by other plants in a garden!

Little shop of treasures • The inhabitants of Odin’s greenhouse are so exotic that stepping into it is a little like being magically whisked away to an alien tropical rainforest.

Do the organic mulch over • Organic mulching saves time on weeding, improves soil structure, encourages microbial activity, slows down moisture evaporation and protects roots against the cold.

ON THE GARDEN MENU

AQUILEGIA ‘Earlybird’ • What’s to like: This short-lived perennial, flowers from early spring through to summer and attracts bees. After flowering, the leaves start to fade, and if cut off at the base, the plant will grow fresh foliage in late summer and autumn.

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IN THE GARDEN WITH TANYA

PETUNIA AND Pelargonium – what else! • They will never lose their popularity for pots (or other places) because for as long as we can plant petunias and pelargoniums every spring, all will be well in our world.

GREG’S TOP TIPS

FREDDIE’S FAVOURITES

Gardening with Izolda

BRING THE MED indoors • Pots of citrus and herbs in terracotta pots against a sapphire blue sea backdrop is an iconic Mediterranean-style look. But maybe there is another way to get the style with something a little different.

ROSE OF THE MONTH

FROM SEED TO SAUTÉ

Heroines of HORTICULTURE

BOTANICAL TALES • Dig deeper into the fascinating world of plants

BUILD A SIMPLE ARCH • Every now and then, an arch is required for an event or even as a garden divider to grow a pretty creeper across. This is how you do it.

LUNAR Gardening Guide • Spring Day is considered "very barren" and then "barren"until the 5th, so rather just plan and prepare garden beds than plant. The sliver crescent is visible on the 5th and the next five days are said to be"semi fertile" and " fertil e~ so ideal to sow seeds and plant both edibles and ornamental seedlings. Plant fruiting veg seedlings and flower shrubs from First Quarter to Full Moon on the marked days. The Full Moon falls just before Equinox Day so use the few "semi fertile" and "fertile" days to plant root veg and late summer bulbs.

The Gardener Magazine

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