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

EMBRACE ERICAS…

On childhood memories • This beautiful terraced garden is built on childhood memories, with English inspiration and local flavour.

30 Year Celebration • the stories we start never end…

101 SPRING TIPS

Flower power on high • Spring is the time to decorate your home with baskets of colour.

Pots of colour and flavour • Elegant and understated, these pots can star in any home or garden role.

Getting ready for your summer vegetable garden

Thanks to Plants

Open Gardens OF SOUTH AFRICA

Hogsback Open Gardens Spring Festival • Fridays to Sundays from 22 October – 14 November

Bedford Country Gardens • 22 - 24 October and 5 - 7 November

Escape to the Country with Harcourts Open Midlands Gardens • Saturday 16 October – Sunday 21 November

Underberg Open Gardens • Saturday 30 – Sunday 31 October

Sequoia Garden Retreat

Kuhestan all-season gardens

Franschhoek Open Garden Festival • Friday 29 – Sunday 31 October

Acara Guest Cottages Open Garden • Saturday 13 November

Rustenberg Manor House Garden • Friday 29 – Sunday 31 October

Elgin Open Gardens • Saturday 30 – Sunday 31 October and Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 November

Windblown garden, McGregor • Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 September

Avondale Wine Estate • Saturday 23 – Sunday 24 October

Helderberg Hospice Open Gardens • Saturday 9 – Sunday 10 October, Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 October

Hoekwil Open Gardens • Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 November

Old Nectar Historical Gardens • Saturday 10 October, Saturday 30 – Sunday 31 October and Monday 1 November

Tygerberg Rotary Club Open Gardens • Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 September, Saturday 23 – Sunday 24 October

Sempervivum arachnoideum

TOP-END AGGIES • We have given the global gardening world a rich gift of our plant treasures to love and to plant, and our agapanthus must be near the top of the very long list.

4-point spring lawn plan • Here are our top four points to get your lawn looking green and lush as it wakes up from its winter slumber.

An impatiens variety to fit every need

A ‘woke’ daisy

HOW TO MAKE a pizza garden

Butterfly Kisses

LUNAR Gardening Guide

The Gardener Magazine

Where are my old garden pals? • There comes a time when a plant can be the most hopeful symbol you can look at each day…