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 ZINGY GREEN SPRING • This early spring border simply glows with acid green hues that allow drops of colour to shine

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TROPICAL SKY GARDEN

PANTS TO THAT!

Welcoming spring • The days are lengthening and our gardens are waking up... are you ready?

Wish list • Blooming from winter to spring, camellias provide year-round interest with luscious evergreen leaves.

Perfect pairings • The following plants have all been given cultivar names depicting two different things. Can you identify them? Answers on page 12

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WIN FLEECY CLOGGIES

TRUST’S PLEA FOR PROTECTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

30-minute makes

AWARD-WINNING DAFFODILS

Book of the month

Fill your heart with GOLDEN FRAGRANCE • With their beauty and heady perfume, scented narcissi will raise the spirits on a cold spring day – indoors or out. Liz Potter picks her favourites

Celebrating the NGS • More than 3,500 private gardens are opened to the public each year for a very special charity. We look at how the National Garden Scheme became part of the British horticultural landscape and its impact on healthcare

Perfect PULMONARIA • This under-used gem of a plant is admired by gardeners and is of huge benefit to the natural world, says Sue Fisher

March • Spring clean houseplants, sow a cut flower patch, feed roses, plant summer bulbs and more

Prune back WINTER-FLOWERING SHRUBS • Spring’s the ideal time to cut back winter stems and late- and early-flowering shrubs

Shrubs and bulbs create SPRING DAZZLE • Pretty tulips and daffodils provide pops of welcome colour around textural foliage plants

Growing from seed for wildlife • Adrian Thomas explains how to go about growing plants from seed to benefit all creatures great and small

A Scottish garden for all seasons • A meticulously planned garden that sings, even in the winter months

Taking inspiration from gardening’s trendsetters! • Renowned horticulturists have all helped to influence the design of this beautiful country garden in Essex

Aberglasney in Carmarthenshire CHARMING LITTLE BEAUTIES • Aberglasney, one of the finest gardens in Wales, features an alpinum made up of miniature wonders

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Welcome to my lovely plot • March is Olga Grieves’ favourite month – a period that heralds the start of a season filled with possibilities

Sow some ‘PURPLE HAZE’ CARROTS • Serve something a little more colourful with your Sunday roast with this unusual, but super tasty, carrot variety

Your questions answered

Q&A

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

A FORK TO TACKLE EVERY JOB • Geoff Hodge rootles around to look at what’s available in garden forks

Over to you!

Garden answers

ABUNDANT AQUILEGIA • These long-flowering, tough little beauties will light up your garden with graceful, nodding beauty

Fragrant Lavender Collection

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win a pair of Henchman hedge shears, worth £95! You’ll find the entry form overleaf

Drink in the quirky beauty of the humble pub • There is more to the Great British boozer than pints – look out for synergy between pub culture and horticulture