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

Growing into the future

Timeline • Some of the highlights from the last 20 years

Subscribe and win! • Win twice this month. Stand a chance to win a Full Bloom Garden Bed and a Maple Grow House!

Kynoch’s DIRT DIARIES

WIN a GIANT GARDEN hamper

Creative study, insight achieved

Gardens we love

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How plants cope with stress… • Literally rooted to the spot, plants cannot escape the environmental factors that can cause them stress.

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SHARE your most challenging tasks with STIHL

Old plant friends • We wrote about them twenty years ago and we are still doing it today. Here are ten old favourites that you will still find in garden centers today. Why, might one ask? The answer is that they can always be trusted on to grow without much of a fuss!

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Meet the future of power tools today

STARKE AYRES: 145 YEARS OF GROWING AFRICA

Veggies that have stood the test of time • Gardeners who look back to mothers and grandparents who tended their own veggie patch may well remember the names of the vegetables they grew, as if they were part of the family.

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FIRST TO MARKET 50 years ago

8 Heart-shaped houseplants • Looking for an interesting gift for that special someone? Maybe you want to add a little more romance and whimsy to your indoor space.

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12 WAYS WITH A Vuvuzela • The Rainbow Nation blew its indigenous horn during the Soccer World Cup in 2010 and the whole world heard us. But, with sore, swollen lips, sagging cheeks, and shattered ear drums, we needed a break and had to put our beloved vuvuzelas to other uses. The garden was a great place to start…

Fresh ideas and creative design

Go Bokke Go! • A gardener, (unlike a rugby coach) can pick a winning team (of plants) which will already be champions as youngsters and will perform even better with age.

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IS IT ALL IN THE BULBS?

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Plant Your Dream with Makhro Home and Garden

Garden Gear • In the last 20 years as clothing fashions have changed, so have the fashions that people wear to garden. The range of clothing now available has increased so that anyone can look stylish and protect their underclothes, and this also includes looks for one of our favourite pastimes – the braai.

The beauty of soil

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110 years of growing plants

Some of our best DIYs • From big to small, over the years, we have tackled them all.

Your garden partner for 20 years… and more

Hail the Iceberg! • The timeless white iceberg rose still reigns supreme. Add elegant lavenders, honey-scented lobularias and some feathery grass for a classical summer look.

National treasures of the garden • One of South Africa’s favourite plants is the extremely drought-tolerant, tough and versatile agapanthus.

LUNAR Gardening Guide • Long, hot, February is best for maintenance, pest and weed control (especially on days marked after Full Moon), and to clear and harvest. Produce picked at this time has a lasting quality for storing or preserving. After last quarter, the barren days suit both lifting and planting of alliums. Lunar lore says that onions harvested or planted on this...