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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SUMMER’S FEVER PITCH • A well planted garden can sing with exotic colour in July if you choose the right plants.

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Mind the GAP! • Make the leap from early to late and get borders that shine all season long, even in the tricky midsummer ‘gap’, says Naomi Slade

PLANTS TO transport you • Recreate the relaxed ambience of a warm and sultry summer holiday abroad, right here at home

PAINT A Smile ONTO YOUR GARDEN! • Spruce up sagging furniture, fences and pots with a creative painting project. Our masterclass in tips will fill your garden with colour and originality

Amazing alstroemeria • These exotic blooms need minimal input to deliver a vivid show year after year. Sue Fisher chooses her favourites

WHAT TO DO THIS Month July • July should be more of a month of relaxation than busyness, with lots of flowers, fruits and tasty leaves being the reward for the tasks done in spring and the previous month. Regular watering and feeding may be needed but the garden is forgiving this month!

Red hot plants for LATE SUMMER FIRE • Be brave and plant a scorching selection of summer perennials to turn up the heat in a sunny border

ALL OF A flutter • Adrian Thomas delves into the magical world of garden butterflies and moths, what the difference is and why they matter

SECRETS OF A BUTTER-MOTH GARDEN

“Visitors have a surprise around every corner” • A garden split into three levels gives the owners a chance to express their quirky style, while giving self-seeding cottage garden favourites a free hand

“Gardening helped to heal me both physically and mentally” • This quintessential country garden, filled with spectacular summer spires, has become a place to work, play – and heal – for its owners

THEATRE OF DREAMS • Magic and memories fill this dramatic garden of sculptures surrounded by topiary and relaxed perennial plantings.

Wild and wonderful • How to get the wild and natural look in your garden without losing control

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Life on the VEG PATCH • Alice Whitehead is feeding her family and her garden this month as the summer harvest gets underway

Plant a MOVEABLE FEAST • Repurpose an old barrow into a herb garden on wheels – and serve it up whenever you need to add flavour when eating al fresco!

Solution of the month

Q&A • Is lichen killing magnolia tree? Can we divide our healthy orchid? Read on…

Design Solutions • Create Mediterranean style with robust plants, says Sara Edwards

Notebook

GET HOLIDAY VIBES with a pretty parasol • Geoff Hodge looks at garden parasols that offer welcoming shade on hot, sunny days

Over to you!

Dramatic divas • Here’s this month’s round-up of your dazzling designer plants... thanks for sharing!

Garden answers

ENJOY A TASTE OF PARADISE • Buy a beautiful Canary Island date palm from YouGarden and get one free!

A MARVELLOUS MIX OF COLOURS • Get your winter bedding plants ready now to ensure vibrant colour continues late into the season after summer’s finale

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win one of six pairs of EVA Cloggies from Town & Country worth £16.99 each! Entry form is overleaf

Food for thought • Let’s return to seasonality and chart forgotten territories of taste, urges Dan Masoliver