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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With ‘ghostly’ foliage… • In far-off tropical jungles grow the most fantastic plants with many leaf shapes and colour variations. The rarer or weirder the foliage hues and markings, the more desirable they become for houseplant collectors who want it all!
Garden GALLERIA
NATURAL SHOWSTOPPER • A spectacular rural garden that offers an oasis of beauty and edible abundance
KEY PLANTS
Montage
Let a labyrinth lead you on • Create a more circuitous route to wander along in your garden. It will make you feel good…
Playing with the BIG BOYS… • The relationship between a good focal plant and a large pot is a long-term commitment which can last much longer than two individuals looking for each other on a dating website.
The evolution of plants Part 1 • When dinosaurs roamed millions of years ago, a group of plants starting their evolutional journey. Growing in nutrient poor soil, roots started morphing into leaves, finding their way above ground in search of food. This was the beginning of the fascinating world of carnivorous plants.
Meet Xa Tollemache • Award-winning garden designer Xa Tollemache is bound for our shores in November and will bring with her an inspiring tale of how she became a garden designer and her time at Helmingham Hall in Suffolk.
An Invitation
Sweet and neat… Mini citrus • Don’t let size stop you from growing your own citrus trees.
Sunsational Salvia
Blooms and leaves
Sowing guide
How to grow cape gooseberries
Dill
Along the kerb
Roselle
St Ursula
Paint a coleus palette
Callistemon ‘Endeavor’
Ostentatious and strange
Sunset shades and lazy days
Let’s trim some plants • Roll out the pruning tools because there is summer pruning to do…
2 long-flowering chinks • The one is evergreen and the other one goes dormant in winter, but while summer is on, they flower with magnificent abundance for months on end.
Something strappy
It’s feeding time in the garden
Subscribe and win! • stand a chance to win a Gardena 550 Watt Electric Hedge Trimmer
Lemon-scented gum
NOVEMBER CHECKLIST
Portable herb garden • Having a table top pot holder allows you to bring fresh herbs from the garden directly onto your patio table.
Gardening Guide
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You are a one! • When you are called a ‘one’ it has no relation to the “Numba One” living at Nkandla! It refers to your personality type…