Every week, Amateur Gardening is the first choice for both beginners and knowledgeable gardeners looking for advice and easy-to-follow practical features on growing flowers, trees, shrubs as well as fruit and vegetables. Be inspired, by our beautifully illustrated features covering plant and flower groups, both home grown and exotic, and take a sneak peek into some of the most beautiful private gardens around the country. Plus, every week we feature expert opinion and tips from some of gardening’s most influential exponents including Toby Buckland, Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank, Peter Seabrook and Jo Whittingham.
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Clearing the garden for winter • Now is the time to plan for winter and beyond, says Ruth
Brexit ‘risk to popular toms’ • Firm warns some favourite varieties may be unavailable
Potting up leaf cuttings • Ruth moves her streptocarpus plantlets to the next level
Keeping perennials healthy • Ruth sorts out her border mainstays before the winter
Elegant colour and style • Grow spider flowers for an unusual touch, says Ruth
Blazing a trail • If you have to light a bonfire, make it a clean one, says Bob, and take precautions to keep everyone safe…
Ringing the changes • Climate change is affecting flowers and veg, says Val
Focus on… Caring for herbs • Want to give your herb garden a boost in the winter months ahead? Lucy explains how you can keep your herbs delivering flavour-packed leaves all year round
Super Salvias! • Drought-tolerant, long-flowering and mostly pest-resistant, salvias are invaluable summer plants, says Graham Clarke, as he reveals his favourite varieties
9 salvias for the garden border
4 salvias for nectar
3 salvias to bring into the kitchen
Frequently asked questions
Vertical beauty • It’s time to consider adding climbing roses to the garden, letting them cover your walls, fences, arches and pergolas with colour and scent, says Anne Swithinbank
9 of the best climbing roses
3 old favourite roses
Best 4 roses for fragrance
Frequently asked questions
This week… Crab apples • With foliage, flowers and fruit in a range of colours, there’s a crab apple to suit everyone
Ask JOHN NEGUS • John will reply personally to all your gardening questions
Don’t be a dendrophobe! • Dendrophobia is a strange disease that induces its sufferers to cut down beautiful trees in their gardens, but don’t succumb to it, says Allen Paterson
A gardener’s MISCELLANY • Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke
Crossword …just for fun!
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Harvesting and storing apples • Steve and Val explain the techniques that will enable you to store the most fruit
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King of the swingers • It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it – so Toby takes a deep breath and grapples with his pampas plant