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

Meet the Contributors • “This month in the garden I’ll be…”

Celebrate THE STAGE IS SET • The long wait for an explosion of colour from dahlias is finally over…

HOT LATE SUMMER CONTAINERS

Simply perfect produce • Start pickling, preserving, freezing and juicing your allotment bounty!

URGENT CALL FOR PLANT CUSTODIANS

A PIECE OF CHELSEA IN MANCHESTER

Wish list • RHS Chelsea’s Plant of the Year Award winners are now in the garden centres, ready for you to snap up!

GEAR UP FOR AUTUMN WITH COBRA’S CORDLESS 24-VOLT HEDGE TRIMMER

What’s on…

Vive la France! • To celebrate the Paris Olympics, can you ID the following plants, which all have French names? Answers on page 12

BORN TO BE WILD

30-minute makes • Dahlias make beautiful vase displays but this is something a little different. It is the perfect decoration to create when having an outdoor evening dinner party.

BIODIVERSITY CELEBRATED AT NATIONAL ALLOTMENTS WEEK

Book of the month

Glorious GRASSES • Sue Fisher recommends grasses to add grace and elegance to your garden all year round

SOUTH AFRICAN dazzlers • Val Bourne encourages you to grow a slice of the Southern Hemisphere in your plot with these plants with pizazz

Hurrah for heavenly HYDRANGEAS • Fill your borders and containers with these fabulously full heads of late summer flowers, says Sue Fisher

WHAT TO DO THIS Month • It’s time to train wisteria, give pollinators a treat and watch out for plants suffering from stress. Here’s our guide to staying on top of the main summer jobs

PLANT LATE-BLOOMING BULBS • Boost autumn planting schemes with vivid pink, purple and gold bulbs

It’s time to PRIMP YOUR POND! • Keep water features looking fresh, clean and healthy

Celebrate planting IN SUN & SKY SHADES • Drought-tolerant golden eremurus are the stars of this border, surrounded by a sea of blue triteleia and silvery foliage plants

GOING TO SEED • Adrian Thomas explores the glorious world of seedheads and how they can enhance the garden for us and for wildlife

Collecting seeds

ATTRACTIVE SEEDHEADS • Not all plants make long-lasting seedheads, so choose carefully for maximum effect. Here are some of the best plants for enduring and appealing seedheads.

Seedheads for birds

WILDLIFE GARDEN JOBS FOR AUGUST

Perfectly protected • One couple’s dedicated labour of love transformed this walled garden into a sanctuary for wildlife

COMING OF AGE • Fiona Cumberpatch discovers a classic country garden in Leicestershire that may look centuries old–but one skilled couple has created it from scratch

The energy of change • Simon Thompson has spent a quarter of a century at bewitching Wallington with its sweeping lawns and walled garden–and it’s easy to see why…

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Welcome to my lovely plot • Diversity is key to an allotment that’s truly brimming with wildlife

Sow and grow ‘Purple Kohlrabi’ • This fleshy, unusual brassica is a great addition to summer salads but can also be steamed and roasted

Fill your garden with a golden glow • Plan now to embrace plants in every shade of yellow next summer and discover the best late-flowering plants to support bees through the autumn

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

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