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 • New bits

Kynoch’s DIRT DIARIES

Trio of Gazanias • If it’s daisies you are after, then look no further than our local tribe of gazanias. These tough, hardy, drought-resistant, sun-loving, spectacular groundcovers are unbeatable for performance in full sun and in pots and hanging baskets. They require any soil, but do better with nutrient-rich humus and little water, the occasional deadheading and that’s it. They are evergreen perennials that will perform for months year after year.

A signature garden • A live painting couldn’t be this pretty! Majestically unveiled, this gorgeous traditional garden has been thoughtfully planted to create living rooms brimming with colour and texture.

Garden with us this Month of May • May is a busy time in the garden as the seasons change and plants need to be set up to keep them going through the colder months. Here are some great tips to deal with important garden tasks with ease.

Advances in Horticulture • The horticulture industry is vast, varied and always improving. Its history can be traced back thousands of years to the period when humans began transitioning from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to more settled communities.

Tools for Pruning • Using the best tools for the job will ensure that pruning is done correctly and quickly too!

African houseplants • If your home is filled with houseplant favourites like monsteras and fiddle leaf figs, you may be looking for something a little different to add to your collection. No need to look beyond the borders of our continent – there are many proudly African houseplants great for growing indoors for complete newbies or experienced plant parents.

Winter leaves • Full of flavour, easy to grow and good for you – let us sow some greens.

WINTER FLOWERS FOR THE VEGGIE GARDEN

Subscribe and win! • Stand a chance to win this easy living Eiger combo 5.5L Air Fryer and personal blender this month

Ornamental kales

ON THE GARDEN MENU – MAY

Pilea peperomioides

Good luck charms • While travelling though our country, you can often find groups of Zantedeschia aethiopica with their large green leaves and white spathes standing tall in a wetland or marshy area where the rhizomes take advantage of the wet conditions and rich soil which keep them evergreen.

Hedging for all seasons

May microgreens

How to stretch water • As far as water management and keeping plants alive go, a gardener has two main concerns. One is to save a precious resource and two is to channel it directly where it is most needed – the roots of a plant.

How to get the best out of your broad beans

Indigenous around the pond

Split up the daylilies

Stocks

The perfect soil mix = success! • Tired of losing precious succulents? Tanya spills her soil mix secrets!

Cloth trumps frost

Trigger roots above water • The following method of succulent propagation above water is a bit unconventional as who would have thought a cutting with some stored water in it would attempt its best to reach more of it in order to produce roots? It’s like holding a carrot just out of reach of a donkey!

Fun Koi Fish Facts

Glamourise containers • Escallonias have always been used as large background shrubs in mixed beds or planted as hedges. Although we love them to bits, we would not...