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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Garden GALLERIA • Awesome Autumn

DIRT DIARIES

Plant a copse • A copse, a very old-fashioned word now seldom used, is a small group of trees planted very close together to form a woodland area. The latter is probably also an old-fashioned idea as not many gardens in suburbia would have the space for a miniature forest.

Mediterranean CHARM • When a homeowner with vision, partners with two talented craftsmen, magic happens.

KEY PLANTS

Floriferous Autumn • April in Africa means warm and mild weather that many late summer-flowering perennials love. Take advantage of this by adding their flower power to your autumn garden to keep the summer look for longer.

Meet the A Team

Oh, my Grass! • If you want perpetual motion and plants willing to go beyond their best, even in the depths of winter, you have to plant grasses…

Feel like trying it too? • If you are now convinced to plant lots of grasses and want to start with species that are readily available (they never were before) we give you a few choices here, but there are many more…

Growing the slope… • Editor Tanya Visser, describes how she tamed the steepest of several slopes in her beautiful garden.

Winter look

FOOD GARDENING ON A SHOESTRING

3 WAYS TO USE PLASTIC BOTTLES

FREE PLANT MARKERS

Liven up your SHADE

Curcuma Tulips from the Tropics • The Curcuma genus of plants includes the edible spice Curcuma longa, better known as turmeric. It also includes these lovely tropical plants, Curcuma alismatifolia (Siam tulip) that are grown indoors in colder regions and also out in the garden in warmer climates.

What they need

At peace in the home • The peace lily (Spathiphyllum) is an iconic houseplant that deserves attention for it’s almost indestructible nature, beautiful dark green leaves and pure white spathes that float about the foliage like sails.

Managing stormwater run-off for landscapes

How to design with ranunculi • Bulbs can be so much more than just a patch of them planted somewhere randomly.

Alocasia ‘Stingray’

For sunny windowsills

Fabulous together! • Who would not want a combination as beautiful as this one in their late winter and spring flower beds?

NEW Pounce on ‘Panther’

A last fling with summer

Grow lettuce • successfully through winter

Pruning

Rose care

Edible Garden tasks

Spring’s Granny’s Bonnet • Aquilegias, also known as columbines, are old fashioned cottage garden favourites.

Nasturtium

Petunias with long arms

How to PLANT A TREE • Autumn is perfect for tree planting. Doing it correctly will have a positive impact years later as the tree grows into a magnificent specimen in the landscape.

Subscriptions Deal

River bushwillow for autumn leaves

It’s all about protection • Gardening is a breeze if you use sophisticated products to protect your plants against their worst enemies. There is a helping hand, you should just grab it!

Sharp, sharp • It’s time to sharpen up the tools to get ready for the main pruning season of the year. Some tools will require the help of a professional and others can be done at home with these tips:

Growing Out • My knob thorn (Senegalia nigrescens) bonsai has grown a bit wild. Normally my trees grow...