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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Flower bombs up high • Keeping growth in check can be more of a problem than encouraging it as far as the following voluminous and very spectacular creepers are concerned. But if you have enough space and can supply a sturdy support structure able to carry the weight of the mature plant, you will never regret planting any one of this trio: you will be showered in an abundance of bright blooms for long periods and will be shaded against the sun by vigorous vegetative growth.

Father’s Day Essentials

Romance made MODERN

PHOTO GALLERY

Reflections • More so than ever before, the home garden, balcony and patio have become the centre of our home life. This Reflections garden from the Lifestyle Design Show 2022 represents this, displaying a leisure space that has all the aspects of a good garden design.

Strings 8 string succulents for indoor gardens • Succulents are not usually easy plants to grow indoors. However, one category of succulents has completely taken over the houseplant world – string succulents. With quirky common names and leaves in interesting shapes, there is so much to love about these unique plants.

Forever yours… • You plant or sow them once, enjoy the reason why you did it, and then, totally unchoreographed and spontaneously, they turn up again when you least expect it. These are the self-seeding and naturalising plants that stay with you…

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Bold pansy faces

Obsessed with foliage!

Food and shelter for wildlife

Haemanthus for shade

King of Siam

Potted winter colour

YOUR ROSE GARDEN

Hanging tough!

MOSS POLES • Climbing indoor plants like philodendrons, pothos (Epipremnum aureum) and monsteras need a support structure to train upwards, like any other climber. A great option for these houseplants is a moss pole.

Flashy for pots

How to grow radicchio • Radicchio, also known as red chicory, is an Italian heirloom vegetable with tender, slightly bitter red leaves that add colour and flavour to salads, even stir-fries.

Garlic chives

Hoya ‘Lemon & Lime’ • Variegation is fashionable now, and so are hoyas (wax plant or porcelain flower). We recently spotted ‘Lemon & Lime’, which has lovely emerald green and golden yellow variegation. Hoyas grow well indoors in bright, filtered light and in the distant past used to be a fixture in sunrooms and on stoeps.

DRAINAGE DO OR DIE

Dress up a tree

BLUSHING BRIDE

Oh drat, rats!

Prune peaches and plums • Fruit trees like peaches and plums need pruning when they become dormant as it will ensure the production of top-quality fruit in summer. If you’ve planted young fruit trees within the past two years and are now wondering how to train them properly, follow these steps:

The history of koi

JUNE CHECKLIST

Bugs and Crosses • This cute board game was easy to make with the help of a friendly child.

LUNER Gardening Guide • Gardening by moon cycles is an age old System practiced by food gardeners, primarily when grow ncj from seed, bulbs or i ooU.Specific cay<, result in ootid germinatio 1 and hirjhei yields, crucial for subsistence farmers and gardening pleasure. The moons cycle influences sea tides and moisture levels of the soil, and the basic rule is plant leaf and fruiting edibles in the growing moon phase and roots and...