The Gardener is a monthly, national magazine dedicated to inspiring gardeners, providing practical advice and showing step-by-step garden projects. Our monthly features include garden design, in-depth plant features, growing vegetables and herbs, water gardening, garden wildlife and pets, specialist plant articles and much more. We have an extensive database on our website that is growing daily.

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To have and to hold… • New roses are released every year, but there are some old favourites that never disappoint. If you visit the rose section of your favourite nursery you will find these in flower, and you will see for yourself why they are amongst the best-loved icons of the rose world.

Smart Gardening • Have you ever been so impressed with something clever that you wondered how it hadn’t been thought of before? This goes for gardening tools and décor too. The collection of gardening goodies we gathered together this month are all examples of smart gardening, helpful and innovative.

Restoring a Grande Dame • This elegant garden has been lovingly restored to complement the magnificent home.

Blooming indigenous for petite gardens! • Is it possible to use an entirely indigenous palette in a very small garden, to feel part of the ‘proudly South African’ crowd?

Enchanting Fuchsias • Fuchsias are often referred to as the ballerinas of the flower world. Delightful varieties with masses of dainty blooms will turn your patio, balcony and shade garden into a concert of summer colour.

Pets in the garden • Plant a medicinal pet garden for your furry friends

Magnificent Cape wild fig for large gardens Ficus sur

Pot covers • There’s a classy pot cover to suit your taste and needs.

Little sweeties • growing baby veggies

Create an EDIBLE PATIO with HERBS

Delicate dierama

Annuals with care

The 24-hour flower

HOW TO Train and prune vine tomatoes

MINT JULEP

Veg garden tasks and companions

Sowing guide

Grow more STRAWBERRIES

PRISTINE CHINCHERINCHEE • If you like a white or ‘moonlight’ garden as well as flower arranging, it would be profitable to get hold of some Ornithogalum bulbs. More specifically, look out for Ornithogalum saundersiae (giant chincherinchee), which we lovingly call ‘chinks’.

Crazy Colour

30-minute hanging potholder

Staking and reblooming Delphiniums

Join us for a virtual tour of Izolda’s Orchid House

Gutsy Gasteria

Corn Cornucopia • Corn is a very easy vegetable to keep for a while.

Rugged vibrancy

Ficus ‘Starlight’

Itsy, bitsy SPIDER…

Red Midinette

Beware the lawn foe

November checklist

The Gardener Magazine

LUNAR Gardening Guide

Vertical wall planter • Create a wall planter with interesting angles to best display your potted plants.

Broke, but still looking good… • From the year voetsêk, history has come full circle. It is hard times once again, and time to use home remedies to stay groomed on a shoestring budget!