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

Fern-likes of the forests

Garden GALLERIA Essential Summer Gardening

Romancing THE STONE • Take a Tuscan structure, add a touch of French flair and a whole dollop of romance, and the result is this charming Pretoria garden.

Inner-space garden design • View your garden as a three-dimensional space to maximise its design.

Growing vegetables without a backyard • Solutions for space-strapped gardeners

Holiday gardening! • Now is a great time to get your garden ready for holiday visitors, so here are some pots and metalwork to add glamour.

Get creative with companion-planting combos.

Bountiful Basil

In the kitchen:

In the kitchen

Growing basil

An old but beautiful classic!

Insane beauty and bounty! • To start growing the most mind-blowing cut flowers yourself, look no further than a few dahlia tubers.

The 24-hour flower • Here today, gone tomorrow, but always back with more…

Sow the tall ones

Lawn alternatives

Petit size, pretty leaves…

Herbs for iced teas • Very simple to make and cool on a hot summer’s day, try iced teas for a boost of healthy herbs and refreshing flavour.

How to attract ladybirds to the veggie garden • Ladybirds are not just delightful visitors to the garden, they are also effective predators of aphids, mites, and even whitefly. Ladybirds are a reassuring sign of a healthy garden.

Herb of the month

Sowing guide

andaai amandafine

Pretty effective marigolds

AS TRUE AS BLUE…

String of Hearts

More lamb’s ears

Root for scaevola!

Sweet Angelonia

Goldilocks!

Lemons abound • Lemons are very useful in the kitchen, and not only for baking. Throw the bits left over after cooking in the dishwater for squeaky clean dishes, add some juice to the laundry for extra white clothes or dilute it for cleaning stainless steel to a bright finish.

NOVEMBER Checklist

LUNAR Gardening Guide

The Gardener Magazine

50 Years of hardepad! • After half a century of being hitched, I am now the proud owner of a medal. “A medal for life-long service,” according to my spouse.