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 LATE SUMMER PINK • Entering the last true summer month, borders become richer and more complex as late flowers get the chance to blend with old seedheads, fulsome foliage and the nodding strands of mature grasses

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THE TIDY GUIDE TO REWILDING • Rewilding is all the rage, but is it the panacea it promises to be? Liz Potter provides some easy tips to get the wild-and-woolly look, without weeds taking over

Create a CONTAINER garden • Even if you’ve got no ground to plant into at all, Greg Loades explains why a stylish, lush and vibrant garden can still be yours

Easy ideas for a CONTAINER garden

Enjoy months of colour with SHRUBBY SALVIAS • Add elegance to sunny, hot spots with free-flowering salvias. Sue Fisher looks at some of the best shrubby types to grow

Next month in Garden answers

August • August is a month of abundant flowers and harvests. While you enjoy beautiful blooms and fruits, it’s time for trimming back and planting for lots of lovely autumn colour

PLANT LATE-SUMMER STUNNERS • Boost tired displays with plants that peak from late summer into autumn

Shimmering beauties for pure MEDITERRANEAN DELIGHT

Wildplay! • Adrian Thomas suggests all manner of activities that can connect children with nature in the garden during the summer holidays

“It’s more of a theatre than a garden!” • This exciting, fun-filled space is all about enjoyment, with various garden rooms to relax in as you follow the sun around the garden

“We wanted a garden of clearly-defined areas” • This delightful garden in Lincolnshire is separated into lots of exciting spaces, with surprises around every corner

Great Dixter House & Gardens MASTERCLASS IN INSPIRATION • The Long Border at this East Sussex gardening stalwart is a work of art that depends on successional planting for year-round interest

MAKE YOUR GARDEN

Life on the VEG PATCH • Jenny Thompson is enjoying the abundance of August but keeping on top of watering and mulching to survive dry spells

Sow fresh and crunchy PAK CHOI • This versatile, quick-growing crop is a tasty addition to a stir fry and will add colour to a salad

Ask the Experts • Our experts will help you get the best from your garden

Q&A • Which rambler for shady trellis? Why doesn’t quince tree fruit? Read on…

Design Solutions • Lifting the planting helps a large garden blend in with the surrounding view and brings year-round interest

HARVEST IN STYLE with a Sussex trug • Geoff Hodge looks at some of the best plant carriers around to help you find the right one for you

Over to you! • WRITE TO US AT Garden Answers, Bauer Media, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA EMAIL gardenanswers@bauermedia.co.uk TEL 01733 395076 WEBSITE gardenanswersmagazine.co.uk

FEELING ROSY • This month’s round-up of your top garden plants... thanks for sharing!

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CHILEAN LANTERNS • Enjoy the eye-catching glamour of these unusual flowering small trees

ORANGES & LEMONS • Buy a YouGarden Orange and Lemon Tree Collection and get free feed!

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win one of three Wilkinson Sword Ultralight Digging Spades worth £39.99 each! Entry form is overleaf

The joy of losing control • Dan Masoliver suggests that learning to live with an ‘imperfect’ garden will make it a happier place