Garden News 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!
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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Readers’<br />
gardens<br />
now!<br />
Over the<br />
FENCE<br />
Wallflowers<br />
and alliums<br />
make a striking<br />
contrast<br />
Echinopsis<br />
‘Bourne<br />
Sparkle’<br />
It’s busy on<br />
the plot!<br />
Derek<br />
Brooks<br />
Prize-winning<br />
veg from the<br />
allotment and<br />
a smaller garden<br />
in greater Manchester with<br />
impressive summer bedding.<br />
Photos: Richard Torr<br />
Bedding plan’s a triumph<br />
Richard<br />
Torr<br />
Trent Valley<br />
garden with<br />
a cottagestyle<br />
feel and<br />
an extensive greenhouse<br />
collection of cacti and<br />
succulents.<br />
Mixed hostas<br />
add interest<br />
for an NGS day<br />
The garden’s full of bloom,<br />
especially from shrubs<br />
including the magnificent<br />
white-flowered Viburnum<br />
plicatum ‘Mariesii’, a narrowleaved<br />
form of Choisya ternata<br />
(Mexican orange blossom) and a<br />
variegated weigela.<br />
In preparation for our two<br />
National <strong>Garden</strong>s Scheme open<br />
days recently, I displayed several<br />
hostas in pots at the front of<br />
the house. Although in full<br />
sun, with plenty of water the<br />
plants are thriving and have<br />
unfurled fresh, bright foliage.<br />
Bearded iris are in bloom,<br />
including a particularly nice<br />
dwarf blue variety with Iris<br />
sibirica starting to show plenty<br />
of flowers for the follow-on<br />
display. ‘Handel’ and ‘Albertine’<br />
roses are the first to show and<br />
Geranium palmatum is<br />
producing an eye-catching<br />
mass of pink.<br />
A bed of Allium hollandicum<br />
Rose ‘Handel’ is<br />
first to bloom<br />
‘Purple Sensation’ underplanted<br />
with orange/yellow Siberian<br />
wallflowers was a triumph, with<br />
the wallflowers continuing to<br />
bloom as the alliums fade.<br />
Tomato seedlings planted out<br />
in the greenhouse border are<br />
growing strongly. Flower buds<br />
are appearing, so I’ll feed them<br />
soon with a high-potash<br />
fertiliser. I’m growing heavycropping<br />
cherry tomato ‘Sweet<br />
Million’, old favourite ‘Ailsa Craig’<br />
and beefsteak ‘Super Marmande’<br />
with French marigolds planted<br />
in between to deter white fly.<br />
After a few weeks of growing<br />
on in the greenhouse, the<br />
planted wall baskets of multiflowered<br />
begonias and pink<br />
trailing geraniums look fantastic<br />
on the house walls.<br />
Cacti and succulents continue<br />
to flower well, especially<br />
echinopsis ‘Bourne Sparkle’,<br />
with 15 iridescent red/pink<br />
flowers out in one day.<br />
Photos: Richard Torr<br />
Weeds are springing up<br />
persistently and<br />
before I plant<br />
anything in the allotment, I’ve<br />
got to weed the beds again! At<br />
least the weather’s been dry<br />
enough to plant out celery, ‘Show<br />
Perfection’ peas, spray<br />
chrysanths, dahlias and tender<br />
veg, including runner beans,<br />
Lawn looks<br />
healthy after<br />
a spruce-up<br />
Linda<br />
Coy<br />
Spacious cottage<br />
style garden<br />
near York filled<br />
with perennials<br />
around shrubs and trees.
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