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 CHEERFUL DAFFODILS • The garden is full of spring promise as daffodils raise their golden heads. Make the most of them in a sunny display, potted and grouped for maximum impact. Even if you didn’t plant bulbs back in autumn, daffodils growing in the green are still affordable and easy to find in garden centres now

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FUNGAL DISCOVERY

CELEBRATE BLOSSOM

Singing the blues • Bright and beautiful accessories and tools to help get the season started

Mum’s the word!

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WIN A LUXURY OUTDOOR MUG

RHS COLLECTIONS ON THE MOVE

Book of the month

30-minute makes

Queen Mother’s MEMORIAL GARDEN REVAMP

BARE-FACED Beauty • Early flowers that appear on bare wood have a special place in spring. Naomi Slade picks some of the best

Design a RESILIENT GARDEN • Worried about the unpredictable weather this year has in store? These simple ideas can help your garden cope with whatever the changing climate delivers

Wheely great UPCYCLING IDEAS • Upcycle – literally! Use old bike parts to make these ingenious garden structures

PAINT YOUR GARDEN WITH Hyacinths • Opulent, fragrant and extravagantly colourful, these heralds of spring signal brighter garden days ahead, says Sue Fisher

March • March is a month of simple tasks that give big results, whether it’s pruning roses, caring for sweet peas, sowing annuals or boosting border plantings

PLANT PRETTY PRIMULAS

Add spring ZING TO BORDERS

Conjure up magical WOODLAND GEMS • Deep garnet trilliums, amethyst hellebores and twinkling citrine corylopsis blooms make an enchanting shady border

Create a CORNFIELD CORNUCOPIA • Adrian Thomas invites us all to grow beds of colourful annual wildflowers

STARS OF THE SHOW • Here are the principal flowers found in cornfield annual mixes:

Cornfield IN A POT

“I always wanted to adapt to the landscape rather than change it” • A disused quarry was the unlikely spot for Julia Young to create her quirky, craggy cottage garden, which is now home to a patchwork of colourful spring blooms

“I grow things that I like, and if they like me and my garden, they thrive” • Dappled with daffodils, tulips and hellebores, this canalside garden offers a delightful springtime treat for both visitors looking out and boat owners and towpath walkers looking in

A FLORAL FEAST • Trewithen House and Garden is the Cornish home to an extravaganza of early blooms and magnificent trees

Life on the VEG PATCH • As excitement grows for the season ahead, Jenny Thompson tries to keep seeds under lock and key for a little longer, but with one or two tasty treats to fill the ‘hungry gap’

Get swept away by CURRANTS • These tart and tangy jewel-like berries enliven fruit salads and make the most excellent jams. Plant bare-root bushes now for mouth-watering crops in summers to come

Solution of the month

Q&A • Can we sow any veg yet? How do we get rid of moss in paving? Read on…

Feeling rosy

Steam ahead

FRUIT TREES

Plant identification

Canker concerns

Design Solutions • Mix smart, sustainable landscaping with loose planting to create an eco-friendly modern garden, says Sara Edwards

SwingINTO SPRING • Geoff Hodge takes the weight off, relaxing in style in garden swing chairs and hammocks

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