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

Garden GALLERIA

DIRT DIARIES

Spicy aloes

Hidden TREASURE • On a recent visit to the diverse province of Mpumalanga, we stumbled into a magical garden, hidden between the clouds.

Inspirational WALLS • At the recent Melbourne Flower Show, designers wowed with new and innovative walls.

5 best bracts and cones • We were looking for the most colourful foliage to plant and asked fynbos grower, Arnelia, to identify the five top performing leucadendron varieties for us.

Fern up your shade • When environmental factors such as too much shade limit the success of flowering plants, opt for tough ferns and remember that green is a colour too!

Pruning vs Wiring • There are a large number of ways to get a bonsai tree to grow in a desired direction.

FIGHT BACK against FROST • When temperatures drop to 0°C or lower, we like to bundle up inside with a blanket or around a fire to keep us warm. Unfortunately, the plants in our garden don’t have that luxury. They have to brave the elements and face possible serious damage in the process.

Subscribe and win! • Stand a chance to win a fantastic MicroCutting tool set from GARDENA for all your harvesting needs.

All your VEGGIE QUESTIONS answered

What to do NOW JUNE

Perfect peonies

Garden tasks

HOW TO protect tomatoes from blight in subtropical gardens

KANGEROO PAW for the garden

Do give a fig!

Blooming rhapsody

Heartshaped leaves for the home

Play boxwood ball! • See the simplicity of boxwoods when cut into balls…

Perennial herbs for winter

Flawless petunias and superb calibrachoas • It’s time to plant lots of glorious colour and there is no better than petunias and calibrachoas for colour choice and impressive flamboyance.

A must for mass! • Use a most verdant shade of green to grass up your outdoor space.

Rose of the month

Euphorbia mauritanica

Lavandula x allardii ‘Meerlo’

Kebab for Keeps

Perfect spillers • Use these two trusty succulents as living mulches or pot toppers around specimen plants in large containers.

Winter’s exquisite beauties • If your garden is cold and you have lots of shade, we have a solution for you.

Bundle firewood into a rack

LUNAR Gardening Guide

The Gardener Magazine

Torn between two sisters • If you agree to things which you think are not likely to happen, it does, when you least expect it…