Kitchen Garden

1 min. di lettura

■ As squashes and cucumbers finish, it’s a good idea to clear them out straightaway and add the long growth to the compost heap. This not only helps with the autumn clear-up, it helps prevent fungal diseases developing and gets rid of any aphids and

Country Life

3 min. di lettura

HAVE a look at these,’ said Yoko. A contact in Japan had just emailed her some photographs of farmsteads, temple precincts and private gardens. All appeared to be scenes from an era long-past, yet the pictures were recent. The effect was strange, as

BBC Gardeners' World

2 min. di lettura

I might be in danger of giving you too much information here, but every January, when the little shoots of snowdrops start pushing their way through the cold dark soil, I do a little dance of joy. It is not a full blown fouetté ballet turn or a meren

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

1 min. di lettura

When space is tight, grow up with Chinese star jasmine. Create a soft contrast with sweeping Carex ‘Frosted Curls’. Keep shrubs compact with Raphiolepsis ‘Oriental Pearl’. The floaty foliage of Pittosporum ‘Ivory Sheen’ adds light. ■

Backyard

1 min. di lettura

While the foliage may be the star of the show, your indoor plants’ accessories and containers are a crucial piece of the puzzle. There are just so many options of all shapes and sizes, from elegant cylinders to novelty planters and stylish options ha

Woman's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

Great for containers, this beauty has stems up to 40cm, and flowers bloom until November. A sun-lover with scented leaves and spires of blue that flowers to October. With beetroot-coloured foliage and red flowers, this blooms to October. ■

Period Living

5 min. di lettura

Emulating or taking cues from nature is an enduring trend in garden design. This natural-looking style encourages us to work with and not against nature – in a sustainable, evolving way. Championed by many designers in recent RHS Chelsea show gardens

The Gardener Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Summer, shade and coleus all go together. If you have a favourite variety growing in your garden already and want more of the same, or if you are given some cutting material, root cuttings fast in water on a bright windowsill. Good quality cutting ma

Denver Life Magazine

1 min. di lettura

“We call this house Contra Verde, because of its contrasting energy,” says Cheri Stringer, owner of TLC Gardens, of this new build in Longmont’s Somerset Meadows neighborhood. “The angles on the roof are all different and modern, and it has this feel

The English Garden

1 min. di lettura

Gardens are deeply personal places. This tiny little sloping garden in the Hebrides is completely idiosyncratic. Owner Lucy Mackenzie collects seashore debris to display among her amazing plant collection here. Tel: 01688 500257; lipnacloiche.co.uk A

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

The gooseneck loosestrife is a winner in my rural garden where clumps spread happily in moist clay soil and light shade. Arching spires of white flowers open mid to late summer. H and S: 1m (3ft). Lady’s mantle is good at self-seeding. Early summer b

Homes & Gardens

2 min. di lettura

It’s impossible to imagine that this elegant garden, cushioned in lush green planting, occupies the leanest of plots – a triangle between two streets in west London. The garden ‘frames’ the 19th-century Arts and Crafts property, pinned off-centre, cr

Your Home and Garden

2 min. di lettura

Build a pergola over the west and south sides of the concrete terrace to provide shelter for both areas and cover for the double doors off the living room. This will effectively create a much larger indoor-outdoor living area. Use a white or cream po

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

2 min. di lettura

Don’t be hung out to dry when you’re looking for a spot to enjoy your garden – build a bench that wouldn’t look out of place in an art gallery. Built in the shape of a humble clothes peg, it’s made using basic treated pine sleepers. It looks so good

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

“I’ve been thinking about what to plant for the new season. It’s a thrill to see the first crocus or daffofill rise from the soil – but what about trying something different? I’m going to take Anne Swithinbank’s advice (page 28) and plant Scilla ‘Pin

Country Life

5 min. di lettura

IT is a lovely irony that one of the most celebrated gardens made in the past two decades was designed by someone who had never created a garden before. The resulting originality explains why Pettifers, the Oxfordshire garden created by Gina Price, i

Garden Gate

1 min. di lettura

Pairing dark foliage with white-streaked or silver foliage is a great way to show them both off — see how great the ‘Black Coffee’ begonia looks against the variegated liriope here? For a more sun-tolerant variation, combine burgundy-leafed ‘Purple K

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

IT’S not every day that I’m accused of being profligate – especially by a teenager – but today my middle tween was aghast that I had paid £15 for ‘a stick’. To be fair, the two-foot potted twig did resemble something a dog might chase, but what his u

The English Garden

3 min. di lettura

Some shrubs are guaranteed to repay their investment, performing year after year without disappointment, and cotinus is undoubtedly one of them. These hardy shrubs not only look good in every season, they also have a unique ability to look good in al

Country Life

1 min. di lettura

As spring gets into its stride, growth pushes up from below. There is a short opportunity this month to get border perennials into good order before the main show and the modern fashion for leaving stems standing means that the general haircut often

BBC Gardeners' World

1 min. di lettura

1 MAKE UP a 50:50 mix of multi-purpose and soil-based compost, then add a little to the base of your new, slightly larger, pot. 2 REMOVE the peace lily from its original pot and gently tease out any of the outer roots that are congested. 3 POSITI

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

These should wait until 2021 On the move: As well as being the season for pruning, autumn and winter are when deciduous trees and shrubs can be safely moved, as I show you in next week’s issue.

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

This firethorn makes a hardy wall shrub and a wonderful wildlife plant. It not only provides valuable shelter and orange autumn berries for birds, but also supplies bees with nectar-rich blossom in May and June. H: 10ft (3m). As if the fragrant golde

Amateur Gardening

2 min. di lettura

WHILE warnings have been noted about the invasive nature of certain bamboos, it was something I had not personally experienced until recently. I do have a pot-grown plant of Fargesia murielae ‘Simba’ (RHS AGM) amongst the large collection of shrubs g

Food

1 min. di lettura

Don’t feel that your vege patch has to be all substance and no style. With clever planting, you can make it look as good as it tastes – which is especially handy when space is at a premium in your backyard. Plant bright annuals, such as nasturtium an

HEIRLOOM GARDENER

3 min. di lettura

Send Us Your Stories We’re looking for readers’ stories about special plants passed down and shared for generations. We pay $25 for each story we publish and $25 for each photo we use. Please send your story and high-resolution photos, if available,

In The Moment

1 min. di lettura

Plant stores seem to be sprouting up left and right these days, some specialising in succulents and purifying focus trees, others crammed with dried leaves and flowers for DIY decoration. Friends get together on the weekend to swap plant cuttings, an

Amateur Gardening

2 min. di lettura

NOW I’m no Elon Musk, but my lumberjack gardening shirt is always so stuffed full of seeds, if it was planted on the Ghost Dunes of Mars I’m sure it would only be a matter of time before the Red Planet turned green. Recently, though, disaster struck

The English Garden

4 min. di lettura

They’ve been steadily gaining popularity for a while now, thanks largely to the favour they’ve found among cut-flower growers, but 2017 was when zinnias reached a flowery zenith. This was the year Fleuroselect, the European body for the ornamental pl

BBC Gardeners' World

1 min. di lettura

Stand close to the branch that’s being cut. Hold the branch steady with the non-cutting hand. Make a cut just beyond the collar of the branch (where it joins another branch) by pulling the blade toward you a couple of times to make a shallow groove.