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.

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Silver touches • If you want to plant to create the wow factor, here are some tips: use shape and form to their advantage and use eye-catching colour and different textures to the maximum. The following three plants tick all those boxes, and you will constantly find yourself admiring their silver foliage and feeling the urge to touch and stroke them.

Garden GALLERIA • Festive Gift Guide

The Autumn Chelsea Flower Show • The premier event in horticulture opens to the public with tributes, causes and excellent garden design.

12 Holiday PROJECTS

Holiday Watering Products from GARDENA!

DIY your tree • A Christmas tree can be as elaborate as a pine tree stuffed with decorations and blinking lights or as simple as a drawing on a chalkboard – whatever suits you. Get creative and design your own, or make this one.

Make your own ornamentation • Make your own one-of-a-kind decorations for your tree this festive season. Get the kids involved and make memories too.

Gifts from the Garden • There is nothing more rewarding than making your own gifts. Spending the time to think about the person you are giving the gift too makes it that much more special. Here are 3 ideas to get you started.

Herb bundle fire starters • Use these fragrant bundles as part of your kindling when starting up your fire, and lose the firelighters. This is also a great idea for throwing onto the fire when you’re sitting around a firepit.

Suspended succulents • Have some fun with old, or even new, kitchen utensils like this colander that we made into a hanging basket for some sexy succulents.

Plant a Succulent Terrarium • Terrariums and succulents are not typically mentioned in the same sentence. Terrariums are known for jungle-like environments with high humidity, and succulents are known to live in pretty much the exact opposite environment. However, with a few tweaks to the typical terrarium set up, your succulents will thrive and you’ll have a modern Pinterest-worthy patio feature.

Make a fairy garden in a pot • Hours of pleasure can be achieved by helping children plant and decorate a fairy garden in the pot.

DIY toys to keep dogs entertained

Make a cat cactus

Box clever • This set of simple wooden boxes transforms into a coffee table or stools.

THE LATEST ON HYDRANGEAS!

HAPPY BEAN

Aquatic nymphs • Gently floating lily pads on the water and the delicate appearance of the cuplike flowers suddenly emerging from the muddy depths to soar above them can give the impression that romantic waterlilies might be difficult to grow. This is not the case at all!

A feast of foliage • At this time of year we all want to add the wow factor to our patios and entertainment areas. With the right plants and pretty pots, you can create a new look before you can say ‘Xanadu’ – which means a place of great beauty, luxury and contentment!

Sweet, sweet watermelon • Summertime is watermelon time – and you can grow them yourself!

The polka dot plant

Summer watsonia

Lily borer

Thank your lucky stars!

How to water veggies without wasting

Thickening the trunk by growing out

Checklist DECEMBER

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Fibre for Xmas!