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Garden Answers

Jul 01 2021
Magazine

Garden Answers is a vibrant and inspiring gardening magazine filled with ingenious design ideas and exciting plant combinations guaranteed to make your garden beautiful.

Meet the Contributors • “This month in the garden I’ll be...”

Welcome

Celebrate HARMONY • This sun-loving trio are just the thing for high summer sizzle, providing shape and texture among grasses for a tapestry of colour

SUMMER PUNCH

Moroccan magic • Create an exotic air with kasbah-style treasures

Gardeners

Tudor garden discovered near Birmingham

Wish list • Salmon-pink, gold and apricot will warm up summer borders

30-minute makes Plant a picture

Discover a New You, at Kew!

WIN NEW PAINT COLOURS FROM THORNDOWN!

WHAT IS FOREST BATHING?

Picnic at the Palace

COMPOST BAGS TO BE RECYCLED

Colourful foliage quiz • Can you correctly identify these six plants with colourful leaves? Answers on page 14

What’s on...

Hard day’s night for beetles

BAMBOO ON THE RUN

Gardener’s BOOKSHELF

QUIZ ANSWERS

Create a tag-team colour scheme • Enjoy a dazzling succession of colour-themed flowers and foliage all year round. Naomi Slade offers some failsafe ideas

Enjoy the BELLS OF SUMMER • The common name of ‘beard tongues’ belies the beauty of sun-loving penstemons, which flower right into autumn. Sue Fisher offers her expert advice

Our pick of the best

How to get best results

July • Make time to water, tidy and stake plants this month, and plan for late-season colour. We also have advice on how to photograph your garden at its perfect summer peak

LIFT AND DIVIDE BEARDED IRIS • It’s worth lifting and dividing bearded iris every three to five years to keep plants healthy and increase your stocks.

ADD LATE-SEASON GLAMOUR • Extend the season with some late-summer flowers that keep going into October

Don’t forget...

Improve your GARDEN PHOTOS • Take the perfect picture every time

JUST ADD ORANGE... • Daring semi-cactus dahlias steal the show in this sizzling summer confection

MAKE THE DISPLAY LAST

“Our garden is a magical mix of planting” • Tropical paradise meets English cottage idyll in this unusual garden. Paul and Val Guppy share its story

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“I’m an extrovert with colour” • Playful ideas and rainbow colours feature in this quirky plant-filled garden. Owner Peter Robinson tells its story

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“Our hillside plot is full of surprises” • Roses and geraniums create a pastel-powered planting scheme in this sloping garden. Owner Brenda Harvey treats us to a tour

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“Reds don’t have to look gloomy” • Scarlet flowers and purple foliage dial up the drama at Crathes Castle. Chris Wardle explains how to get the look

Get the look

Celebrate the beauty of beetles • These nocturnal stars of the insect world devour pests and tidy up organic debris. Adrian Thomas indulges in a little beetlemania

What is a beetle?

THE FAB FIVE

MAKE BEETLES WELCOME

Rogues’ gallery

WILDLIFE GARDEN JOBS FOR JULY

REDISCOVER Beetroot • After years marooned in a vinegary wilderness, this unfussy stalwart is enjoying a renaissance. Helen Billiald explains how to grow and cook with beetroot

Six of the best...

SOWING BEETROOT MODULES

Easy recipe

BEETROOT TROUBLESHOOTER

Or try these...

Carrot marmalade

Grow gorgeous garnishes!

Successional SOWING • What to sow, when to harvest, expert tips and larder projects

Myth buster

July planner • What to sow and when to harvest

Prune...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 116 Publisher: H BAUER PUBLISHING LIMITED Edition: Jul 01 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: June 23, 2021

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Home & Garden

Languages

English

Garden Answers is a vibrant and inspiring gardening magazine filled with ingenious design ideas and exciting plant combinations guaranteed to make your garden beautiful.

Meet the Contributors • “This month in the garden I’ll be...”

Welcome

Celebrate HARMONY • This sun-loving trio are just the thing for high summer sizzle, providing shape and texture among grasses for a tapestry of colour

SUMMER PUNCH

Moroccan magic • Create an exotic air with kasbah-style treasures

Gardeners

Tudor garden discovered near Birmingham

Wish list • Salmon-pink, gold and apricot will warm up summer borders

30-minute makes Plant a picture

Discover a New You, at Kew!

WIN NEW PAINT COLOURS FROM THORNDOWN!

WHAT IS FOREST BATHING?

Picnic at the Palace

COMPOST BAGS TO BE RECYCLED

Colourful foliage quiz • Can you correctly identify these six plants with colourful leaves? Answers on page 14

What’s on...

Hard day’s night for beetles

BAMBOO ON THE RUN

Gardener’s BOOKSHELF

QUIZ ANSWERS

Create a tag-team colour scheme • Enjoy a dazzling succession of colour-themed flowers and foliage all year round. Naomi Slade offers some failsafe ideas

Enjoy the BELLS OF SUMMER • The common name of ‘beard tongues’ belies the beauty of sun-loving penstemons, which flower right into autumn. Sue Fisher offers her expert advice

Our pick of the best

How to get best results

July • Make time to water, tidy and stake plants this month, and plan for late-season colour. We also have advice on how to photograph your garden at its perfect summer peak

LIFT AND DIVIDE BEARDED IRIS • It’s worth lifting and dividing bearded iris every three to five years to keep plants healthy and increase your stocks.

ADD LATE-SEASON GLAMOUR • Extend the season with some late-summer flowers that keep going into October

Don’t forget...

Improve your GARDEN PHOTOS • Take the perfect picture every time

JUST ADD ORANGE... • Daring semi-cactus dahlias steal the show in this sizzling summer confection

MAKE THE DISPLAY LAST

“Our garden is a magical mix of planting” • Tropical paradise meets English cottage idyll in this unusual garden. Paul and Val Guppy share its story

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“I’m an extrovert with colour” • Playful ideas and rainbow colours feature in this quirky plant-filled garden. Owner Peter Robinson tells its story

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“Our hillside plot is full of surprises” • Roses and geraniums create a pastel-powered planting scheme in this sloping garden. Owner Brenda Harvey treats us to a tour

IN THE GARDEN WITH…

“Reds don’t have to look gloomy” • Scarlet flowers and purple foliage dial up the drama at Crathes Castle. Chris Wardle explains how to get the look

Get the look

Celebrate the beauty of beetles • These nocturnal stars of the insect world devour pests and tidy up organic debris. Adrian Thomas indulges in a little beetlemania

What is a beetle?

THE FAB FIVE

MAKE BEETLES WELCOME

Rogues’ gallery

WILDLIFE GARDEN JOBS FOR JULY

REDISCOVER Beetroot • After years marooned in a vinegary wilderness, this unfussy stalwart is enjoying a renaissance. Helen Billiald explains how to grow and cook with beetroot

Six of the best...

SOWING BEETROOT MODULES

Easy recipe

BEETROOT TROUBLESHOOTER

Or try these...

Carrot marmalade

Grow gorgeous garnishes!

Successional SOWING • What to sow, when to harvest, expert tips and larder projects

Myth buster

July planner • What to sow and when to harvest

Prune...


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