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

With ‘ghostly’ foliage… • In far-off tropical jungles grow the most fantastic plants with many leaf shapes and colour variations. The rarer or weirder the foliage hues and markings, the more desirable they become for houseplant collectors who want it all!

Garden GALLERIA

NATURAL SHOWSTOPPER • A spectacular rural garden that offers an oasis of beauty and edible abundance

KEY PLANTS

Montage

Let a labyrinth lead you on • Create a more circuitous route to wander along in your garden. It will make you feel good…

Playing with the BIG BOYS… • The relationship between a good focal plant and a large pot is a long-term commitment which can last much longer than two individuals looking for each other on a dating website.

The evolution of plants Part 1 • When dinosaurs roamed millions of years ago, a group of plants starting their evolutional journey. Growing in nutrient poor soil, roots started morphing into leaves, finding their way above ground in search of food. This was the beginning of the fascinating world of carnivorous plants.

Meet Xa Tollemache • Award-winning garden designer Xa Tollemache is bound for our shores in November and will bring with her an inspiring tale of how she became a garden designer and her time at Helmingham Hall in Suffolk.

An Invitation

Sweet and neat… Mini citrus • Don’t let size stop you from growing your own citrus trees.

Sunsational Salvia

Blooms and leaves

Sowing guide

How to grow cape gooseberries

Dill

Along the kerb

Roselle

St Ursula

Paint a coleus palette

Callistemon ‘Endeavor’

Ostentatious and strange

Sunset shades and lazy days

Let’s trim some plants • Roll out the pruning tools because there is summer pruning to do…

2 long-flowering chinks • The one is evergreen and the other one goes dormant in winter, but while summer is on, they flower with magnificent abundance for months on end.

Something strappy

It’s feeding time in the garden

Subscribe and win! • stand a chance to win a Gardena 550 Watt Electric Hedge Trimmer

Lemon-scented gum

NOVEMBER CHECKLIST

Portable herb garden • Having a table top pot holder allows you to bring fresh herbs from the garden directly onto your patio table.

Gardening Guide

The Gardener Magazine

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You are a one! • When you are called a ‘one’ it has no relation to the “Numba One” living at Nkandla! It refers to your personality type…