Garden Answers

Garden Answers is a vibrant and inspiring gardening magazine filled with ingenious design ideas and exciting plant combinations guaranteed to make your garden beautiful.

Welcome

FABULOUS FRILLS AND SPILLS • A profusion of textures and colours can turn any size garden into a paradise

Be inspired by... • Plants, books, events & buys for the month ahead

Gifts for her… • With Mother’s Day on the horizon, treat your mum to gardening-inspired gifts that she’ll love

Wish list • Exuberant and dazzling, charming cosmos reliably fills borders with a profusion flowers well into early autumn. The more they are neglected, the more they flourish...

A mother’s wish • Can you identify the names of the following plants that celebrate our special mums? Answers on page 12

30-minute makes

HUNDREDS OF WILDFLOWERS BLOOMING AT NEW YEAR

AMAZING DISCOVERIES

20 ways to transform your garden • Louise Curley demonstrates how to give your garden a fresh new look this spring with these inspiring ideas that will revamp your planting and design

Tactile plants for hedonists • Val Bourne lets us in on the plants she simply must hug and sniff when she’s in the garden

Get on trend with PEACH FUZZ • Peach Fuzz has been named the Colour of the Year 2024 by the Pantone Color Institute. Now the RHS has put together its top plants to incorporate it into your garden

Cheerful CHAENOMELES • The vibrant chalice-shaped blooms of wildlife-friendly flowering quinces are a delight in early springtime

Spring • From dividing daffodils to sowing honesty and propagating lavender, there’s plenty to get on with

CREATE A COLOUR ACCENT • Give borders a little extra oomph by introducing flowers that pack a colour punch

PROPAGATE LAVENDER • Grow new replacement plants from cuttings taken from old, unproductive plants

Introduce some SPRING ZING & ZEST • Layer plants for an intensity of colour to carry the fabulous display on, right into summer

Get to know A CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE • This is the season when much of our garden wildlife needs to finds a mate. Adrian Thomas describes what to look and listen out for in this annual drama

A place of peace and tranquillity • A peaceful retreat that is full of colourful, contrasting shapes and textures

The magical mystery garden • From reclamation yard gems to theatre props, Little Orchard is full of beautiful surprises

DELIGHTFUL SWATHES OF DAFFS • Anisa Gress visits the stunning Wimpole Estate, in Cambridgeshire, which has more than 60 identified species of daffodils...

Welcome to my lovely plot • Embracing change, diversity and a never-ending job list gives Olga great satisfaction and the most beautiful plot

Sowing and harvesting PURPLE-PODDED PEAS • They are not just good to look at, they taste absolutely delicious, too!

Ask the Experts • Our experts will help you get the best from your garden

Q & A • Will kiwi plants fruit in the UK? What is eating my daffodils? Read on…

Hardy hyacinths

SOIL MATTERS

Bees & butterflies

Fruiting potential

Snake plant revival

Garden RESCUE • Bare soil in March presents a wonderful opportunity to plant evergreens and early spring flowers, says Ian Hodgson

A CUT ABOVE • Geoff Hodge explains what to look for when buying a pair of secateurs

Over to you!

Garden Answers

PICK YOUR OWN APPLES, PEARS AND PLUMS! • Grow your very own orchard from your back doorstep with this Mini Orchard Fruit Tree Collection

Elaborate Erysimum Collection • Enjoy beautifully fragrant blooms for months on end

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