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.

A year of garden jobs • Ruth make a list of essential tasks for the next 12 months

Plan your gardening with the seasons • Follow AG’s advice every week to help you create a varied, thriving garden all year

Clean tools in a tidy shed • Start 2023 with some tool housekeeping, says Ruth

Braced for the elements • Early weeks can be the most treacherous, says Ruth

All about water butts • Keep harvesting rainfall and keep it healthy, says Ruth

Lawns in the midwinter • Pests and problems can be averted, says Ruth

What to grow now • Now is the time to reassess your gardening habits so you have more successes in the coming year, says Bob

Mystery solved! • Val discovers why a woodpecker was ‘attacking’ her tree

Focus on… Early spuds • Steal a march on spud harvests, says Lucy

Must-have annuals for 2023 • For an inexpensive way to add colour and vibrancy to your summer borders and containers, sow a range of annuals, says Louise Curley, as she lists some of the best

Get ahead of the game with Early risers • Who says you can’t sow in January? Some plants perform best if given a long growing season, says Graham Rice

12 Winter Hardy Shrubs

This week… winter heaths • Both foliage and flowers of winter heaths add welcome colour to the winter garden

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

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Prehistoric plants! • We look at plants still here from the time of the dinosaurs

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Ask ANNE SWITHINBANK • Masterclass on: citrus essentials

A tree-challenged garden • Graham and Maggie Hale explain how they have learned to live with the 11 trees they inherited when they moved to their Dorset cottage 14 years ago, says Sue Bradley

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Lessons in laurel • It sounds sweet, but cherry laurel is causing Toby problems. So if you have some in your garden, read on…