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

Flowers up high… • If you have a sunny little pergola-covered patio that needs some shade in summer, but there is no available space to plant a creeper in the ground, don’t be disheartened. We have three great suggestions that will look stunning in large containers that give them room to grow well, and which will climb with ease along pillar and post. With time, good pruning and regular feeding and watering, they can turn into floriferous focal points.

Garden GALLERIA

Ciao Bella • A glorious marriage of structure and colour, this petit urban garden is a true joy to behold.

PLANT GALLERY

DESIGNING WITH Containers

MORNINGS FILLER WITH PLANTS

Spring’s most glorious! • There is a good reason why we get so hyped up about spring! Feast your eyes on 10 shrubs that have been waiting in the wings to start blooming again. Make a point of planting them in your own garden, because we don’t want you to suffer from ‘FOMO’ (Fear Of Missing Out).

Live outside this summer! • Move your lifestyle outdoors and make the most of the warm weather with Keter.

Boost your biodiversity

Key components of an IPM strategy

‘Chlorophyll-junkies’

Time for livestock

ClickUp! • The all-season outdoor lifestyle décor products, for a garden that gives you:

Mummy’s little helper… • Fun projects for kids in the veggie garden

A natural balance: using herbs and flowers to manage garden pests

What to do in OCTOBER

Put spring in boxes! • There is nothing that lifts the spirits more than planting up a window box – it’s like creating a miniature garden in an instant without even breaking into a sweat or breaking the bank. Our choice of plants for three window boxes are available in nurseries now, as are some great window boxes.

BAYOU BEAUTIES • A rainbow collection of flamboyant flowers on tall stems, sometimes reflected in still water, is a simple description of the swamp iris…

Hot rays? Portulaca

About a little blue grass… • Steel blue or blueish grey is always a welcome contrast colour in the garden, and if it’s in the form of a finely textured ornamental grass, so much the better!

Companion plants • Festucas are also great in combination with larger ornamental grasses like pennisetums with their burgundy coloured leaves, but we team them up with the following too:

TEA GARDEN IN A POT • Tisanes, or as they are more commonly known, herbal teas, are of a group of infusions that make use of the many medicinal properties of herbs, and can be hot or cold. The combinations of herbs are endless and it’s worth a bit of experimenting to find your favourite.

How to grow chillies from seed

The joy of vertical planters

Garden tasks

SAWUBONA

Halloween pumpkins

Not without gloves!

Do dianthus!

‘Wheels of Wonder’

Crinkly flowers in pot or plot

Leafy luxury • Design thoughts lead to good plant choices…

Bonsai are people too • Do you ever see faces in the clouds, or perhaps shapes in wood grain? If so, don’t worry; you are not going crazy (or if you are crazy, then you are not alone!).

MAKE YOUR OWN SEED TAPE • Seed tape sets your seedlings onto paper to help you store them for the next season. When it’s too cold or rainy to go out into the garden, make your own seed tape for your next...