Amateur Gardening

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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Our successes and failures in 2022 • AG’s gardeners come clean about what worked and what didn’t during this tricky year

A garden of ‘Eden’ but poor potatoes

My leeks were a triumph but the corn was smutty!

A bouquet of beauty despite drought setback

In 2023 I will resolve to… • Look at the garden and plan your year ahead, says Ruth

Save those gardening pennies • Ruth looks at ways of keeping your money in your purse

Winter fruit pruning • Cut them back to boost blossom and crops, says Ruth

It’s time to divide rhubarb • Split plants now for improved cropping, says Ruth

Make a mini orchard • Would you like to make more of idle garden spaces? Bob shows you how to turn your lawn into a mini orchard

A taste of honey • Val looks at the fascinating private life of the honeybee

Focus on… Plant a fruit tree • Start fruit trees right for healthier fruit, says Lucy

Green up your home with Hero houseplants • When it comes to growing indoor plants, the options are endless and care is easier than you think. Sally Jenner suggests surefire survivors and more adventurous picks

Bewitching witch hazel • With brightly coloured scented blooms, hamamelis is a great way of adding winter interest to your garden, says Camilla Phelps, as she looks at the best varieties to grow

This week… Morning glories • The colourful climbing morning glory is ideal planted against a sunny wall or fence

Ask JOHN NEGUS • John will reply personally to all your gardening questions

Music to stimulate plants • John Day relates how one scientist in the 1950s conducted experiments to demonstrate how sound waves affect the growth of plants

A nude in the bath… • …is just one of many plants with interesting and amusing English names, as Terry Underhill explains

A gardener’s MISCELLANY • Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke

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Crossword • …just for fun!

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Controlling vine weevils • Steve and Val Bradley explain how to tackle one of the most destructive garden pests

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Ask ANNE SWITHINBANK • Masterclass on: sowing early under glass

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Readers’ successes of 2022

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TOBY BUCKLAND • Plantsman and BBC gardening presenter