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Garden News is the magazine for every gardener, bringing you everything you need to know in the garden each week. Each issue is packed full of practical, down-to-earth gardening tips, grow-your-own advice, ideas and inspiration, as well as all the latest news, new plants and products plus great money-saving offers and free gifts. See what we're all about in our sample mini mag!
Garden News is the magazine for every gardener, bringing you everything you need to know in the garden each week. Each issue is packed full of practical, down-to-earth gardening tips, grow-your-own advice, ideas and inspiration, as well as all the latest news, new plants and products plus great money-saving offers and free gifts. See what we're all about in our sample mini mag!
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‘Most of the<br />
roses Shakespeare<br />
refers to would have<br />
been wild ones’<br />
My gardening Diary<br />
Potted verbasums<br />
add drama<br />
Shutterstock<br />
Dark-leaved<br />
heucheras<br />
for my talk<br />
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heads of creamy, highly scented<br />
flowers. It’s more likely<br />
Shakespeare would have seen<br />
R. arvensis. We all know our<br />
R. canina dog rose but it’s nice<br />
to be reminded we have more<br />
than one native hedgerow rose.<br />
Brilliant<br />
yellow<br />
tuffets are<br />
erupting<br />
<strong>Garden</strong> World Images<br />
Mr Bowles’s golden sedge is<br />
probably the most exciting<br />
plant in our garden now. Huge<br />
tuffets of slender leaves of the<br />
most brilliant yellow have<br />
erupted in several small beds<br />
in the brick garden. They were<br />
planted to give the impression<br />
of moving through these small<br />
beds and helping integrate<br />
them into one garden.<br />
Romantic roses<br />
are mentioned<br />
frequently in<br />
the Bard’s work<br />
If you wanted to create<br />
your own Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream venue, then planting<br />
honeysuckle, roses, violets and,<br />
perhaps, a pretty oxslip or two<br />
should enable you to weave a<br />
magical scenario.<br />
What’s looking good now<br />
Glowing golden sedge<br />
A.E. Bowles loved finding<br />
and collecting strange and<br />
unusual variants of native<br />
plants. Whenever he found<br />
them, he’d dig them up and<br />
plant them in his ‘Lunatic<br />
Asylum’ – a special bed built to<br />
accommodate his quirky finds.<br />
We often find self-sown<br />
seedlings in spaces between<br />
paving stones and the path<br />
bricks; invariably they’re the<br />
same bright glowing yellow as<br />
their parents, they never seem<br />
to revert to type.<br />
Beside purple-leaved<br />
Clematis recta ‘Purpurea’<br />
and chunks of brilliant blue<br />
provided by Anchusa azurea<br />
‘Loddon Royalist’ they make<br />
a winning combination.<br />
Jonathan Buckley<br />
MONDAY Verbascums potted up from open-ground<br />
plants have reached gigantic proportions. We gave them<br />
plenty of root room and they’ve repaid us with a sterling<br />
performance – their spikes are nearly 1m (39in) high. To use<br />
the drama to full effect, they’re standing one to a<br />
terracotta pot across the length of the front terrace.<br />
TUESDAY Our new 126-compartment module trays are<br />
splendid. They’re designed for vegetables but are ideal for<br />
small perennial and biennial seedlings. Only problem is<br />
getting the plants out again once they’ve rooted. Neil’s<br />
working on an invention to extract them easily!<br />
WEDNESDAY While filming recently for a forthcoming<br />
‘Right Plant, Right Place’ piece for <strong>Garden</strong>ers’ World in a<br />
Herefordshire meadow, the soil was as heavy and wet as in<br />
our field yet it contained such a wealth of wild flowers.<br />
Beginning to believe we could grow such beauties, too.<br />
THURSDAY At the Birmingham NEC for <strong>Garden</strong>ers’ World<br />
Live. It promises to be a little different this year and the<br />
layout of the marquee has changed to make selling and<br />
buying plants easier. There are more gardens too, including<br />
a rose-swathed gothic ‘ruin’.<br />
FRIDAY Tearing around various stages and theatres<br />
within <strong>Garden</strong>ers’ World Live. Today’s talk is based on my<br />
book Making a <strong>Garden</strong>. One of the great advantages of<br />
being at such a show is that there are plenty of plants<br />
around and exhibitors seem very helpful and willing to<br />
lend their wares.<br />
SATURDAY Planning to talk about container planting<br />
while filling a roomy container with a dark eucomis as its<br />
centrepiece, surrounded by dark-leaved heucheras and<br />
dahlias with loads of brilliant yellow flowers to be picked<br />
up by cosmos ‘Zanthos’.<br />
SUNDAY One batch of our seedlings are<br />
looking decidedly unhappy, with different<br />
varieties that were potted into the same<br />
compost all suffering similar<br />
symptoms. I’m going to send it off to<br />
the RHS to get it analysed.<br />
Carol Klein