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.

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Celebrate TWINKLING IN WINTER SUN • These hardy shrubs in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden bring much-longed for colour and structure as the frosts bite

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

BIRDS OF PARADISE • Adrian Thomas on how to make your garden a haven for wild birds, all year round

CREATIVE WAYS TO reuse & upcycle • With a little craftiness and some imagination, items on the rubbish heap can become exciting new features for the garden!

How to have a happy indoor garden! • Crafty planting ideas for adding some green, living style to your house, tailored to each individual room, from a new book by Miranda Janatka

Planting bulbs in the green • Is anything as frustrating as bulb planting that results in a barren landscape? Well, this method will bring an end to dashed hopes and deliver a vista of jewels instead

Heavenly Hippeastrum • Spectacular, trumpet-shaped blooms and gorgeous style and colour in winter, Sue Fisher praises these beautiful plants

WHAT TO DO THIS Month January • Winter doesn’t have to mean a dull garden. Here are some easy tasks to keep it thriving in the cold

Provide a little JANUARY SPARKLE • Create a glowing tapestry to brighten up those shorter days

“We have more than 300 varieties of snowdrop now” • Once an old quarry, the garden of Hedgehog Hall is now a haven for nature and wildlife – and all done organically

“Being in the garden is our raison d’être” • It’s been 50 years in the making, but Mary and Stuart Hendry will never be finished with their garden

A TASTE OF THE EXOTIC • Forget foreign holidays – a trip to The Orchid House at RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey, will give you a taste of tropical paradise without boarding a plane

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Sow early BROAD BEANS • Sowing in an unheated greenhouse can give an early harvest of this tasty summer treat

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

Q&A • Is there an easy daphne to grow? Why did apple blossom early? Read on…

Garden RESCUE • Plant evergreens and grasses in this part-shady border, says Ian Hodgson. But give them more space to shine

Create new plants with a PROPAGATOR • Geoff Hodge investigates propagators to give seeds and cuttings the best start in life

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Wonderful wildlife • Here’s this month’s round-up of your top garden visitors... thanks for sharing!

Double-flowering hellebores • Liven up your winter garden with exquisite double hellebores

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GORGEOUS GLADIOLI • Add height and drama to your borders and cut-flower arrangements

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In praise of the brown garden • The sepia-stained winter garden is filled with all manner of beauty without us needing to tidy it all away, explains Dan Masoliver