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.

WELCOME

High-impact foliage • Some plants have such fantastic foliage that their flowers pale into insignificance. Here are three with a vibrant summer glow that you just have to plant to create a Persian plant carpet in a collection of pots, or in a semi-shaded garden bed receiving ample morning sun.

Time-saving vendables

One-of-a-kind STYLE AND DESIGN • This garden may have been a challenge, but it ended up winning awards.

History of Kynoch

Change

10 ways to change your garden on a budget

WATER IS THE DRIVING FORCE • Maintaining a beautiful garden needs water. It is, however, a scarce and increasingly expensive source that should be carefully managed

FOR A SAFER KIND OF GREEN! • Daily news about the depletion of water resources and the loss of biodiversity due to aliens is overwhelming, and the question arising in a worried gardener’s mind is often, ‘How can I do my bit to help?’

BOMB-PROOF PLANTS • Plants are our allies in the battle to garden in the face of climate change.

Foodscape your garden • Why replacing ornamentals with edibles is the next big thing…

Garden Gym • Using your garden to get fit

7 Tips for better soil • Improve your soil to improve your garden

3 happiness flowers • Some of midsummer’s flowers are like garden Prozac. Being amongst them has the ability to turn anxiety and a ‘down’ day into a happy day. Soothe your soul, make yourself happy and celebrate summer with the following:

DETOX IN A POT • We can thank the plant world for providing a cornucopia of herbs that deliver not only essential vitamins and minerals, but also antioxidants and immune boosters that help detoxify the body. Our combo is the perfect choice for January after the joys of the festive season have left us a little lacking in vooma.

Plant a blast of colour! • What we plant now must give us the typical look of summer, and should continue with a striking floral performance until the end of autumn. It should also hold up to heat without needing to be continuously pampered with an open hosepipe.

FLAVOURSOME, FABULOUS, FESTIVE FENNEL

How to control whiteflies on veggies

NIFTY BORDERING

Renga renga lily

JANUARY CHECKLIST

Rock on! • This beautiful seesaw doesn’t take long to make, will provide hours of fun for the kids, and will be protected against the weather thanks to the Woodoc Water-Borne MARINE.

Gardening Guide • Lunar gardening is a tool that times gardening tasks, and our guide specifies the best days for particular gardening activities. January is a hot cycle, and gardens in low summer rain regions need increased irrigation, especially for annual edibles and flowers, so note the "irrigate" days. Lunar gardeners report that less water is needed in between these days. Regions with high summer rain and high humidity should use the pest control days to treat infestations, especially effective around this month's barren full moon.

The Gardener Magazine

Slowly turning into gardeners • Apparently the world gained 18.3 million new gardeners lately – it’s just my luck to have to play nursemaid to two of them!