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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Masqueraders of grass…
Garden GALLERIA
SOUL OASIS • Between the metropolises of Jo’burg and Tshwane lies the agrarian community of Mnandi, where Donovan Robinson and his partner, Leon, have created a flora-filled spiritual retreat.
Reducing leaf size
REWILDING a case of letting go • Help the planet with a wild patch.
PRACTICAL REWILDING TIPS
Birds of paradise • Strelitzias… Mother Nature’s incredible sculptures!
Croton pseudopulchellus • Small lavender fever-berry
Indoor Plant Troubleshooting Guide • What is wrong with my houseplant? This is probably the most common concern in indoor gardening. One plant starts to look a bit worse than it did when you bought it, and panic ensues. Gardeners, either by humility or plant hypochondria, tend to blame themselves. However, there are many culprits in ill plant health – gardeners being only one of them.
The plants! • An introduction to the plants available for your underwater garden.
Growing LETTUCE in winter
WHAT’S NEW?
Try this
Herb-rich soups, stocks and broths • It is not only chicken soup that is good for the soul, but also all soup that is satisfying and full of flavour.
Year-round colour
Zebra grass • Bring movement into your garden with ornamental grasses and colourful companions.
POPPY enchantment
FIERY WNNTER COLOUR
New Baby Ficus
Hardwood cuttings • Some plants are best propagated with cuttings when they are dormant in mid-winter or before the first new growth in spring. We took some nandina cuttings this month and have some tips to help you get it right.
PETUNIAS everywhere!
HOW TO: 3 easy ways to stake climbing garden peas
Rose bath salts • A gift of roses is such a pleasure, and when they are spent you can use them to make bath salts.
YOUR ROSE GARDEN
Show your PANSY FACE!
Living sculpture of mini orchids and ferns • Embrace your inner sculptor for this plant and driftwood art piece that will make your home come alive this winter.
Pretty PRIMROSE
JUNE Checklist
Plumb perfect! • This epic plant stand is made with plumbing pipes and sealed with tinted Woodoc 50 Exterior Sealer.
Plant by the moon
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My bathmat, my therapist… • If you can’t talk about something that is bothering you or making you sad, create something impractical. It helps!