Amateur Gardening
magazine ∣ Dec 05 2020 · Amateur Gardening
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Every week, Amateur Gardening is the first choice for both beginners and knowledgeable gardeners looking for advice and easy-to-follow practical features on growing flowers, trees, shrubs as well as fruit and vegetables. Be inspired, by our beautifully illustrated features covering plant and flower groups, both home grown and exotic, and take a sneak peek into some of the most beautiful private gardens around the country. Plus, every week we feature expert opinion and tips from some of gardening’s most influential exponents including Toby Buckland, Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank, Peter Seabrook and Jo Whittingham.
Editor’s Note
Battling the elements • Ruth looks at ways of dealing with the worst of weather
Winter weather: the three worst offenders • How to protect your gardens from the elements in three practical and easy steps
Monty ruffles some feathers • Celebrity is blasted as ‘ignorant’ by the garden industry
Seeds of change
Give your soil some TLC • Digging over and replenishing will improve it, says Ruth
Sowing in the cold • Some seeds need the cold to germinate well, says Ruth
Fruitful endeavours • One fruit tree can support several cultivars, says Peter
Grow baby salads • Undercover greens provide nourishment and variety in winter. Bob takes a look at growing seedling salads
Last call for garlic • Traditionalists plant it by December 25, says Ruth
Bird Watch: The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) • Ruth admires this thrush with Anglo-Saxon roots
Times, they are a-changing • Val looks at the vital importance of caring for our planet
Focus on…Blueberries • Sumptuous superfruits guaranteed with Lucy
Correas • They come from Down Under, but in the right conditions Australian fuchsias are perfectly happy growing here. And they offer months of winter colour, says Martyn Cox
Add colour, structure and scent with Midwinter stars • The weather may not be inviting but your garden can still give you a warm glow if you furnish it with plants that perform during the colder months, says Anne Swithinbank
Plants for every pH • Identifying where your garden soil sits on the pH scale is ground zero when it comes to choosing and growing plants that are happy and healthy, says Hazel Sillver
Ask John Negus • John has been answering reader queries for 50 years
A Gardener’s Miscellany • Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke
Overwintering pot plants • Tim Rumball offers some tips to save your plants and save you money
ASK ANNE! • Anne Swithinbank’s masterclass on: dahlia dilemma
Letters to Wendy
Amateur Gardening
The steeply sloping garden • A sloping site in a Cheshire market town has truly met its match in determined gardeners David and Melita Turner, who took on the challange, says Sue Bradley
Making the cut • It’s time for the pre-Christmas prune, says Toby, as he looks at why some trees ‘bleed’ when they’re cut