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 ROSE SEASON • Though some roses bloom a little earlier, June is the month when the full flush of fragrance and flowers arrives. This delight for the senses is worth seeking out in a garden open to the public if you don’t grow them at home.

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Inspiring purple spires • Can you name these dramatic flowering plants that contain the word ‘Spires’ in their name?

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WIN CORDLESS HEDGE TRIMMER AND SHRUB SHEARS SET

Book of the month

30-minute makes

Sparrows remain THE MOST SPOTTED BIRD

LEARN TO LOVE DANDELIONS!

TREAT YOURSELF TO Designer PLANTS • Try these gorgeous show-garden favourites in your own borders. Here’s our pick of the plants to turn heads

Pallet PERFECTION • Create budget-friendly and long-lasting planters with bespoke appeal with a free pallet or two

Grow clouds of colour with nepeta • These pretty and aromatic perennials soften borders with their billowing beauty. Sue Fisher explores the huge range of plants to grow

June • June is perhaps the finest month of the year in the garden. So many plants are at their peak and those that will burst in flower later on still look perky, well-poised and fresh. Summer fruits will soon be ripe for picking and the summer nights are long. Keep on top of weeding so that it’s a ‘little and often’ job and the month is but a dream!

PLANTS TO KEEP YOUR POND ON POINT • Six plants to brighten and enliven your pond’s margins

TIME TO SOW BIENNIALS • Forbrilliant displays of colourful cottage garden favourites such as foxgloves, honesty,wallflowers and forget-me-nots, start sowing biennials this month.They’ll be readyto plant intoyour borders in earlyautumn

Grow gorgeous greens with SHADY FAVOURITES • Woodland gems such as ferns and foxgloves can be given an extra lift by mixing in shade-tolerant tellima and hostas

Go Wild ABOUT PLANTS! • Adrian Thomas explains why growing plants is at the heart of the habitat-rich garden

“Over the years we’ve learned to change and adapt” • Two determined gardeners have transformed a tumbledown Cambridgeshire farmyard into an idyllic cottage garden

“We were looking for a big project… some of our friends thought we were mad!” • One family’s hilltop sanctuary, carved out from a stony hill in the Cotswolds, has been created from scratch using salvaged materials and a lot of homegrown plants

ROSE BY NAME… • …and by nature! The RHS garden in Devon lives up to its title with a whole host of moreish roses in June

Life on the VEG PATCH • As the longest day of summer approaches, both Jenny and her allotment plants are making the most of the extra sunshine

make a frame for SQUASH • This pretty and rustic fan-shaped frame is ideal for supporting sprawling squash plants, keeping crops off the soil

Ask the Experts

Q & A • Is my plant suffering from tulip fire? How can I grow French beans better?

Weird & wonderful

Seasonal differences

Conifer rescue plan

Design Solutions • A pergola with evergreen planting transforms a small garden into an outdoor room

Shine A LIGHT • Geoff Hodge reveals the huge range of electricity bill-busting solar lamps now on offer

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Garden answers

FLOWER POWER • Fill your garden with pollinator-friendly flowers all summer long with these...