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 • Autumn Shopping

Dirt DIARIES

Gregarious beauties • They are indigenous, prefer to be left in peace to grow together in thick colonies in sunny pockets in a rock garden or in pots, and they all flower in autumn. The bulbs can be ordered online from bulb specialists to be planted from October onwards, and nurseries specialising in indigenous plants often sell them in flower at this time of year. In many cases, these bulbs are heritage plants passed on from grandmothers to mothers and daughters…

A PLACE TO call home • Outdoor living is at the heart of this timeless and immersive townhouse garden

Let the OLD bring your garden to LIFE • There is art in bringing something that is perhaps destined for the junk heap back to life as garden décor. Here are some great ideas to try.

All-purpose, alluring AGAVES • From the simplest, most minimalistic display needed around the house or patio, to a large area in the garden needing a special feature, there must be an agave to use…

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POLYPHAGOUS SHOT HOLE BORER (PSHB) Replant List

Food Garden DESIGN

BOTANICAL TALES • Dig deeper into the fascinating world of plants

WHAT TO DO NOW • Our guide to planting, sowing, pruning, dividing and caring for your garden – inspiration from The Gardener Team.

A place in the sun for Vincas • Grown as annuals in colder regions and perennials in warmer climates, vincas are perfect for any garden.

IN THE GARDEN WITH TANYA • Dividing overgrown air plants is a fast and easy task to do.

YOUR ROSE GARDEN

BLOWING in a breeze • On those serene, late-summer days before Mother Nature changes the season to full-on autumn, she gently sneezes up a breeze to let the windflowers dance on their tall stems…

CLIMATE RESILIENT GARDENS • Greener Innovations for the Future

LOVELY ‘Louise’

SAUCY beggarticks • Plant some last and fast late-summer colour pops in hanging baskets, window boxes, pots and flower beds with the latest hybrids of Bidens ferulifolia (beggartick).

Formal Flair • You only need three top plants to create a classical, formal look. We call them our ‘black tie’ plants for smart gardens.

BLACK is beautiful! • It has lately become fashionable to paint the outer walls of a house or garden boundary walls black – very modern and quite dramatic. If this gutsy trend grabs you, but not to such an overboard extent, what about using black pots as design elements?

Pelargonium cuttings • If you have a healthy, well-branched pelargonium that you love with ample summer growth on it to donate some cutting material, know that it is easy to grow more plants. You can never have enough of them!

CARDINAL FLOWERS for boggy spots • They love high temperatures, humidity and moist soil.

FROM SEED TO SAUTÉ

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BRIMMING with succulents • From any angle, this cascading succulent pot is a vertical visual delight.

MAKE MORE Cape primroses • Leaf cuttings are easy to do, and the success rate is high with plants that can be propagated this way.

CALANDIVA ‘Else’ • For long-lasting blooms in great bold colours, try Calandiva ‘Else’, also known as Kalanchoe ‘Else’.

SALVIA ‘Lancelot’

Heroines of HORTICULTURE

Craft a Fin-tastic table • The artist in you will have a...