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.

WELCOME

Pretty inbetweeners! • We are often so focused on the splendour of the large blooms of our proteas and pincushions that we forget that there are also other equally beautiful members in the fynbos family.

Beauty in the mountains • There is a place at the foothills of East Griqualand that bursts into colour each spring. Abuzz with life, this garden gives so much to a family as well as all the friends that find their way up the dusty road.

THE CREATIVE ART OF PAVING DESIGN • When contemplating paving design in the garden, there are a few key considerations:

Mini aloes • The size is diminutive, but the appeal is ginormous!

Mini aloe garden • More and more mini aloes are hitting the market, and they make a colourful and easy-to-care-for bowl of interesting succulents.

Bolusanthus speciosus

Mastering Indoor Plant Propagation • Propagation is a budget-gardener’s greatest skill. Common plants may be inexpensive, but propagated plants are free – nothing can beat that. Once you begin collecting plants that are scarce or rare, you will appreciate having the skill even more.

Choosing the BEST veggies for small gardens

Herbs for healthy pets-inside and out

Stocks up!

Enduring ‘Everillo’ • Plant this colour-rich ornamental grass to lighten and brighten your surrounds.

NEW SALVIA

Luscious liliums

Dipped in chocolate

Cabbage

3 Colourful Fillers • Every garden always has gaps – bits of bare soil between plants that can be filled with pretty annuals. So, take yourself off to the nearest garden centre to invest in three colourful bedding plants. Even in midwinter, there are flowers pleading to be planted!

How to pre-sprout garden peas

Help! My koi pond is green!

YOUR ROSE GARDEN

Soar to new heights with an old trellis • A repurposed trellis painted in a bold colour can add a touch of instant brightness to a garden, and is perfect for adding a few growing climbers to the mix.

LAWN MOWER MAINTENANCE • While the little lawn plants are dormant, it’s a good idea to get any lawn equipment serviced and new blades fitted so that you’re ready for the spring growing season. Here are some tips on doing some of the maintenance yourself:

Checklist

Concrete Leaf wall Décor • Mix up some cement and make amazing things with leaves.

Gardening Guide • General garden and lunar principles agree that perennials and trees benefit from pruning in the dormant months. Take it a step further and prune, cut back or mow according to the effect you desire. Overgrown trees and shrubs trimmed on a waning moon (before New and after Full) show slower growth, but straggly bushes and trees trimmed or lawns mowed during the waxing moon phase (between the days of the New and Full Moon), show faster growth, especially when the weather and soil warm up in the Spring.

The Gardener Magazine

Your mouse can tattle! • What would you do if you found out that you are monitored via your mouse and keyboard?