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.

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

Welcome

Celebrate SPRING BURNING BRIGHT • Colour and vibrancy is beginning to flow back into the borders, blazing a path for the exuberance of spring

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

Wakey wakey! • Great gifts inspired by the end of hibernation for these wonderful creatures!

FUTURE PLANT CUSTODIANS

PROTECTING PEATLANDS

Wish list • Pretty in pink – and purple – dahlias are the perfect present to give for Mother’s Day

COMPETITION

Gardening for whatever comes next DESIGNING BEAUTY FOR UNCERTAIN WEATHER • After scorching summers and sodden seasons, certainty is no longer part of the forecast. But with the right choices, your garden can bend rather than break. Greg Loades offers practical ideas to help you protect your soil, shelter your plants and create a space that works in sunshine, storms and everything in between

Lovingly grown, expertly styled CUT FLOWERS OF DISTINCTION • Louise Curley celebrates spring’s homegrown and low-carbon blooms, showing how to pick for months and arrange them in garden-gathered style

Compact CONIFERS • It’s time to take a look at the wealth of stylish smaller conifers that give all-year colour and structure, says Sue Fisher

March • Make more plants this month by dividing perennials, sowing hardy annuals and planting summer bulbs

START OFF HARDY ANNUALS • You can sow these resilient little beauties direct outdoors March–May

Add spring zing TO BORDERS • As the garden bursts into growth, make these spaces truly sing

Add more colour WITH STYLISH PLANTING • Make your garden look fuller and brighter with clever plant choices that will work with each other to blend complementary hues together, bloom for long periods and self-seed efficiently

Harbingers of spring and HIGH FLYERS • Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

The perfect mix of style and purpose • This north-facing plot has been smartly redesigned for every day, family living

The gems among granite • Amid a rugged landscape, this detailed garden in south-west Scotland is full of glorious spring blossom

A golden awakening for March • Ed Atkinson, Head Gardener at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, shares his delight in seeing the first daffodils of spring peeping through in the garden’s wilderness avenue

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Welcome to my lovely plot • Time to wake up! Olga Grieves is getting busy as everything is springing to life

SMALL MIRACLES OF MARCH • Spring is unfurling in Fiona Cumberpatch’s container garden in Lincolnshire and she’s appreciating every small stage

COMPOST HEAPS • Make your garden waste work harder with greener and more effective techniques

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

Q&A • Why is ficus dropping leaves? Can I stop blackfly on broad beans? Read on…

Cutting edge LAWNMOWERS • Geoff Hodge looks at robotic models that take the strain out of achieving a lovely, lush lawn

Over to you!

Garden Answers

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