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 • “What I love most about spring is...”

Celebrate SPRING • Include a mixture of textured evergreens, early spring flowers and colour-crammed containers in your garden and spring can have all the fullness of summer

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

Garden design trends

Wish list . • New plants in a soft palette of blushing pink, salmon and lilac

FRUITFUL HARVESTS IN ABUNDANCE

BOOSTING GARDENS IN LOCKDOWN

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Recognise these daffodils? • Can you name these delightful daffs that are brightening spring borders up and down the country! Answers on p14

What’s on...

TOWER OF LONDON Blooming celebration

30-minute makes • Brighten your Easter table with these cute mini egg vases – they’re so simple and cheap to make

Gardeners’ BOOKSHELF

Make your front garden fabulous • Naomi Slade shares ideas on how to transform the space outside your home and make it a treat for passers-by

GREAT IN POTS

Compose a theme with style & substance • Colourful plants and pots paint a picture

Up-front GREENING • Welcome wildlife into your local neighbourhood

WILDLIFE FRIENDLY

TOP TEN Perfect partners FOR TULIPS • Pair your tulips with some of these gorgeous plants to create spectacular spring scenes

Plant a breathtaking RHAPSODY IN BLUE • Smothered in azure pompons, ceanothus are darling late spring-flowering shrubs for a sunny spot. Sue Fisher picks some of her favourites

Our pick of the best

Caring for ceanothus

Spring • With the garden bursting into new life, it’s a great time to give plants in pots a boost, plant summer-flowering bulbs, prune honeysuckle and start a patio potato crop

PLANT EXCITING SUMMER BULBS • Boost borders later in the season with a rich diversity of spectacular flowers

EMERALD FIZZ • Heralding the fresh start of the season, a sea of daffodils, honesty and acid-green euphorbia complement sparkling white birch trunks

MAKE THE DISPLAY LAST

“I wanted a blaze of light in the garden” • With a quirky mix of garden structures, secluded seating, curvy topiary and a mass of bulbs this Lancashire cottage garden has a new vibrancy in spring. Owner Claire Spendlove shows us around

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“There’s a procession of pink and white blossom” • Tulips aplenty now supplement the spring display of flowering shrubs and blossom at this Cotswold farmhouse. Owner Simon Gill tells us more

“I love growing tulips en masse” • Sweeps of colourful tulips are planted in ribbons and swathes in this warm, dry garden in Essex. Owner Philippa Burrough treats us to a tour

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“It has a naturalistic feel and is largely left to do its own thing” • The Stream Garden at Rosemoor is a relaxed vision of lush foliage and bold-coloured flowers in spring. CuratorJonathan Webster explains

STREAM GARDEN • Lush planting, bold leaves and zingy hues create a naturalistic waterside planting scheme

Making mini-meadows • Creating a wildflower patch in a lawn is a hugely rewarding project for us and wildlife. Adrian Thomas reveals the positive results

Easy mini-meadow

SEED BOMBS

WILDLIFE GARDEN JOBS FOR SPRING

Fact file

Life on the VEG PATCH • Spring is a time of no-dig bed prep, sowing tomatoes and welcoming beneficial insects for Ade & Sophie Sellars – the self-styled Agents of Field

Growing TOMATOES • Early...