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 Unbox for Summer

DIRT DIARIES

Coastal favourites • Three small gap-filler shrubs well suited to a windy coastal garden.

Delights to DISCOVER A horticultural masterpiece that just keeps on giving… • Nestled in the heart of Durbanville, lies a garden that is a testament to the love and dedication of its owners and the meticulous care provided by the horticultural team.

GARDEN CENTRE Awards 2023 • The South African Nursery Association (SANA) recently held the annual Garden Centre and Home Store of the Year awards 2023. This was an event fondly referred to as the Oscars for gardening. Several outstanding Garden Centres received awards to honour their significant contribution to the green trade.

GOING VERTICAL

3 hasty shrubs • Most gardeners who plant new shrubs will tell you that they have a great impatience to see them grow fast and flower well. All plants need time to settle in before creating a performance, but some do it faster than others…

SALVIAS to love • If you are aiming for flower-filled borders all summer long, aim straight for the salvia displays in your local nursery and be prepared to be wowed!

Heroines of HORTICULTURE

SUCCULENTS WATER WARRIOR HEROES • Nature has provided plants with a number of adaptations to save water. Spot these traits and you’ve found a water warrior winner.

Good BUGS • In a garden where creatures are free to prey on each other, the biological cycle plays out dramatically…

What to do NOW NOVEMBER

Put your Zinnias to bed • Zinnias have truly come into their own with brighter colours and short or tall plants, depending on what you need in a garden bed or container.

Turn your cypress into Christmas • Compact, lush and evergreen, a potted cypress makes a beautiful decorated tree for the festive season.

The beauty of BEGONIAS • For endless colour and a garden that looks vibrant throughout the seasons, these are your go-to choices.

Beyond Storage: Where style meets functionality • These garden sheds from Keter not only protect your gardening tools and supplies, but make a statement in your garden too.

Summer seed sowing with MayFord seeds • For summer colour in your garden, you can’t go wrong with a packet of seed from MayFord and you can’t beat the value for money.

Decorative Dahlias • With a little basic care, you can grow these showstopping plants in your own backyard with minimal effort.

COREOPSIS ‘UpTick’ • For an easy-togrow, tough perennial, with masses of pretty blooms, plant Coreopsis hybrids and watch the bees and butterflies come into your garden.

Maintaining Kikuyu the Water Wise Way • Lawn and other turf grasses are often seen as high-water users, especially in the spring and summer seasons before the rainy season has started. But can lawn be used in a water wise way? Water Wise explains the wise use of water with kikuyu.

CHLOROSIS how to fix it • Chlorosis is not a death sentence for your plants. With prompt identification and the right interventions, you can restore your plants to their lush, vibrant selves.

GROW to EAT • VEGETABLES l HERBS l FRUIT

Leaves and lemon dressing • Salad leaves are perfect for growing in spring when the temperatures are still cool enough and they only need 4 – 6 weeks to grow before you can harvest. Pair a...