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.

Welcome

Celebrate NOVEMBER’S GOLDEN GLOW • Glorious autumn colour goes up a notch this month as many leaves take on a golden yellow that twinkles in the low sun

Be inspired by... • Plants, books, events & buys for the month ahead

EVERGREENS with a twist! • Sue Fisher explains how you can add exciting living structure to your garden

GET THE GRAND GARDEN LOOK • Naomi Slade explains how to squeeze great garden inspiration into much smaller spaces

Grassroots working, all year round! • Add some elegance and architecture to your garden with robust miscanthus grasses, says Sue Fisher

November • Plant bare-root shrubs, make your garden bird friendly and try your hand at making a seasonal hanging basket

PLANT A TREE FOR AUTUMN • A small deciduous tree or large shrub will light up the garden with fiery foliage

It’s time to take ROOT CUTTINGS • Increase stock of fleshy-rooted plants such as oriental poppies, anemones and verbascums

Create a burnished mix of TEXTURAL GRASSES • Striking black phormiums and physocarpus add drama to the dark-tinted panicum foliage and fluffy miscanthus seed heads

Sharing the love of wildlife • Adrian Thomas suggests all sorts of ways to inspire others to help wildlife in their gardens – and find extra inspiration for yourself

“We happily embrace new gardening fashions” • This sweeping Bedfordshire garden pays homage to changing trends while at the same time embracing timeless beauty

“My desire to make room for all the plants I love” • This Cheshire garden was once a working nursery and has now evolved into a well-planned oasis of beauty

Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire A TREAT FOR TREE LOVERS! • Westonbirt’s famous tree collection, started more than 200 years ago, is a living museum of colour as leaves dazzle this month, says Anisa Gress

Other garden highlights

Life on the VEG PATCH • Alice Whitehead savours the perfume and the produce of late autumn

PATIO • Even the smallest of spaces can be used for a delicious homegrown crop of apples, with zero food miles!

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

Q&A

Design Solutions • Supplement a variety of trees with industrial-style materials to create a robust and secluded gathering space, says Sara Edwards

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PAIR OF STANDARD HOLLIES • Provide a warm welcome with this elegant pair of seasonal evergreens

100 FREE**SPRING BULBS • Plant them now for swathes of spring colour in borders and pots!

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win one of four Town & Country kneeler and gloves sets worth £34.98 each! Entry form is overleaf

Borrowed landscapes • No garden is an island and like-minded garden lovers can be found everywhere, reflects Dan Masoliver