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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The POWER of WINTER FERTILISING • Fertilising through winter won’t produce immediately visible results, but when spring arrives your plants will show their gratitude with a glorious display.

Dirt DIARIES

Autumn leaves • When they bud, they promise us spring, they work hard to shade us in summer, and before taking a well-deserved rest in winter, they show us the glorious beauty and bounty of autumn with their magnificent leaf colours in the fieriest of shades before kindly dropping them off for us to collect and compost.

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A LASTING legacy • This peaceful, indigenous garden in Pietermaritzburg has a beautiful story to tell.

BETTER EDGING • Define and identify spaces with good, straight edging.

The Indigenous AUTUMN AND WINTER GARDEN • Elsa Pooley, the botanist, artist and author gives us insight and planting tips about native plants that will soon start blooming.

WHAT TO PLANT in a Rain Garden • Nature invented the concept of rain gardening long ago to filter and clean waterways and to stop erosion and flooding after heavy rain. The solution is adaptable plants…

Autumn beauties • As the weather cools down, it feels as if the roses can breathe again. No more scorching sun to shrivel and bleach their petals, evaporate their perfume and stunt their growth.

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PRACTICAL PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES • There is a lot we can learn from the permaculture movement that can be implemented in any food garden.

Heroines of HORTICULTURE

BOTANICAL TALES • Dig deeper into the fascinating world of plants

Autumn inspiration ON THE GARDEM MENU • Our guide to planting, sowing, pruning, dividing and caring for your garden – inspiration from The Gardener Team.

Sparkling poppies and baby’s breath • This is the perfect time of the year to get your poppies in the ground ready for that spring explosion of colour.

DUTCH irises • Dutch irises have been and still are an inspiration for artists and painters around the world.

A glorious turnout!

IN THE GARDEN WITH TANYA

SEDUM SPECTABILE ‘Brilliant’

ROSE OF THE MONTH

STOP YOUR POND from turning green • Limit algae growth to prevent murky water.

POP IN the colourful • Add staying power to your garden with three of the best plants for striking texture and foliage colour throughout the year. There will be the surprise of flowers or grassy plumes too.

The low-down on hedge trimming

COLOURFUL Cascading Cali’s

Cut back spent perennials • If perennial foliage and old flower stems on salvias, euphorbias, perennial phloxes, lavenders, and gauras are now done with their autumn flush, cut them back to ground level.

Succulent planting kit • One of the most important aspects of successful succulent growing is the correct soil mix. A mixture that holds water can cause root rot and one that drains too quickly cannot hydrate the plant enough. These are some of the secret ingredients succulent growers use for the best results.

Gardening indoors • Try to rebloom a moth orchid

Propagating in water • It’s really easy to grow houseplants from cuttings, simply add them to fresh water and they make a display that can only be considered as decor in the home.

Late sowing of sweet pea seed

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