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 GLOWING STEMS • January is the best time to appreciate the shining bark of dogwood and willow stems. Teaming them with dark-leaved evegreen herbaceous plants highlights their full fiery brilliance

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BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH

A new gardening year

Wish list

SUSTAINABLE EDIBLES

New Year’s GARDEN RESOLUTIONS

POISONOUS PLANT COLLECTION

Harbingers of spring

FINCHES FRIEND FEEDER

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TREE OF THE YEAR

SNOWDROP Festival

SLUG STUDIES RECOGNISED

LOCKDOWN GARDENING STUDY

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Gardeners’ BOOKSHELF

Feel-good GARDENING • Soak up all the health and wellbeing benefits on offer from gardens and gardening, says Naomi Slade

Rock out! • Rugged rock garden style is both sustainable and the perfect solution in small modern gardens. Here’s how to bring the look right up to date

Extraordinary winter plants • Plantsman Philip Clayton gives a connoisseur’s guide to winter plants in this extract from his new book RHS A Plant For Every Day of the Year

DAZZLE WITH Dogwoods • The winter stems of cornus are like glowing wands of fire and judicious pruning intensifies the colour, as Sue Fisher explains

January • January is a great time to prune and care for trees while enjoying the emergence of dainty spring bulbs

WINTER TREE CARE • Help keep your garden trees in good shape with a few seasonal tasks

Create a FROSTED GREEN SCENE

Natural SOLUTIONS

“I’m a naturalist at heart” • A wash of milky snowdrops, a broad brushstroke of golden aconites and pools of amethyst purple crocuses turn Chris Shennan’s garden into an impressionist painter’s canvas in late winter

“The garden blends seamlessly into breathtaking hillside scenes” • Gardening at 650ft above sea level is a challenge that Jane and Niall Graham-Campbell have embraced with open arms and an open mind

SHAKE OFF THE BLUES • Welcome in the new year with a trip to Harlow Carr to revel in the sea of colour and scent revealed along its renowned Winter Walk

Life on the VEG PATCH • Jenny Thompson is planning unusual and tasty delicacies to grow this year

Plant a bare-root PLUM TREE • A heavy-fruiting ‘Victoria’ plum tree makes a rewarding centrepiece in a potager-style kitchen garden of raised beds and low hedging

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

Q&A • When should we prune potted fruit trees? How do we stop lawn weeds?

Fill your HOME WITH FRAGRANCE

Design Solutions • Create pockets protected from boisterous dogs, says Sara Edwards

Ways to bring winter warmth • Geoff Hodge looks at simple garden heaters to warm the cockles of your heart

Over to you! • WRITE TO US AT Garden Answers, Bauer Media, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA EMAIL gardenanswers@bauermedia. co.uk TEL 01733 395076 WEBSITE gardenanswersmagazine.co.uk

Late-season colour • Here’s this month’s round-up of your top autumn performers... thanks for sharing!

FREE*BARE-ROOT PERENNIALS • Receive 12 bare-root plants of four different cottage garden perennials for just £5.95 postage

Winter flowers • Brighten your winter garden with these delightful early bloomers

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win one of 4 Town & Country kneeler and gloves sets worth £34.98 each! The entry form is overleaf

“Who has time for patience?” • New columnist Dan Masoliver finds...