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 • The latest gardening news and views

Subscribe and win! • Stand a chance to win a fantastic BLACK+DECKER 3-in-1 Strimmer Grass Trimmer this month.

DIRT DIARIES

Dainty houseplants • In keeping with our‘small future’ theme this month, we scoured the nurseries for tiny houseplants and found some real beauties!

For the Simple Joy of Growing!

SMALL SPACES – Big dreams

So good for you! • They are the‘fruits of paradise’ and powerhouses of vitamins and minerals and will grow happily in roomy containers. Creating a potted orchard will give you access to exotic edibles and an interesting and very healthy variation on your diet.

Gardening up high

Glass houses

Supersized vs Super

Go vertical

Solar in the Garden

Saving H2O

Small food gardens with maximum output

Blazing bougies! • If you want the joyous flower power of bougainvilleas around you but can only plant in pots, do it with gusto as they will grow in confinement and we have recommendations…

The evolution of plants Part 3 • In this series we discover the fascinating world of carnivorous plants and find out more about how to grow them at home.

Glamorous Bella • What differentiates the ‘Bella Fuchsia®’ varieties from the hundreds of other fuchsia species and hybrids one might ask?

Summer colour in a pot • The plants in this group all love the sun and well-draining soil which is why they belong together in a pot for a hot summer patio.

Tropical blooms galore! • Summer means the sight of alluring hibiscus flowers covering huge evergreen shrubs in temperate and subtropical gardens all over the country. To enable you the enjoyment of this extreme floral pleasure up close in your small garden, or on your patio or balcony, plant a modern range of hibiscus hybrids bred in Denmark called HibisQs.

More diamonds • We are all familiar with the lovely Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’ and now we can enjoy two more varieties that are equally as special.

How to get the best from garden beans • The sowing window for bush beans is coming to an end. If you haven’t yet grown this easy, very rewarding vegetable, here are some pointers for maximising your beanfeast.

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum)

Using colour for pest management

Haul it All! • Handy around the garden and fun for the kids, this wagon is a real winner.

LUNAR Gardening Guide • New year’s "fertile" day is ideal for successive planting of fruiting veg, flower annuals, shrubs, and resolutions for a good gardening year ahead. The"Kitchen Gardeners" full Moon, suits planting above and below ground edibles, such as cherry tomatoes, mini cucumbers and carrots to extend salads until early Autumn. "Harvest" days before and after new Moon suit preserving and using produce in sauces, oils, pickles and jams, and good to deadhead flower shrubs to encourage further flowering or clear spent or straggly plants.

The Gardener Magazine

Goodbye yesterday, hello tomorrow! • The old and the young often think quite alike and have the same fears without realising it.