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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!
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Roger’s pick<br />
for structure<br />
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Colour is key in Roger’s<br />
garden, with themed<br />
areas of monarda and<br />
lilies in bright reds and<br />
yellows<br />
fresh all the time,” he says. There<br />
are newts, frogs and dragonflies,<br />
but incredibly about six or seven<br />
fish have found their way in.<br />
Used to planting one each of<br />
everything, Roger has recently<br />
discovered the benefit of<br />
planting perennials, as what<br />
once was the Mediterranean<br />
garden is now a Piet Oudolfinspired<br />
naturalistic haven. This<br />
by no means large area is packed<br />
with teems of colour-coded lilies,<br />
monarda, eupatorium,<br />
heleniums, echinacea, asters,<br />
sanguisorba and dots of grasses<br />
between. A large Trachycarpus<br />
fortunei that never stops growing<br />
has huge yellow flowers in June.<br />
There are plenty of jobs for<br />
him to do now in the garden, but<br />
his next one is to unwrap the<br />
exotics for the summer, plus his<br />
beech hedging and conifers need<br />
pruning in a week or two.<br />
And has the garden turned out<br />
as he planned? “I do worry about<br />
maintenance,” he says. “Do I<br />
simplify the garden as I get older<br />
or leave it in all its glory? But it’s<br />
as perfect as it can be, and there’s<br />
no space left to add anything.”<br />
Tilia cordata ‘Greenspire’<br />
This compact, neat and tidy small-leaved<br />
lime is ideal for pleaching. Height: 12m (40ft),<br />
spread: 17m (58ft).<br />
Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’<br />
Hailing from the horse chestnut family, it has<br />
red candles and bronze-green leaves. Height:<br />
5m (17ft), spread: 3m (10ft).<br />
Cercis canadensis<br />
Spectacular red-pink leaves glow through<br />
spring and summer, deepening to orange in<br />
autumn. Height: 10m (34ft), spread: 10m (34ft).<br />
Roger’s rules for success<br />
1Get planning - it’s everything<br />
and cataloguing is a<br />
fantastic idea. Organisation is<br />
the key to making things easy<br />
for yourself.<br />
2Learn to propagate as it’s<br />
beneficial to your garden,<br />
and to others if you give<br />
cuttings away as gifts - it’s so<br />
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Alamy<br />
easy to do once you know how.<br />
3Decide what you want your<br />
garden for – mine is for me<br />
and my passion for plants. It’s<br />
very high maintenance! It<br />
reflects me and my interests<br />
and is an outlet for creativity.<br />
4Add height and<br />
imagination to your patch.<br />
Ilex crenata<br />
A bushy evergreen shrub, perfect for clipping<br />
into Japanese ‘cloud tree’ shapes. Height: 4m<br />
(13ft 6in), spread: 3m (10ft).<br />
Acer griseum<br />
This slow-growing acer has attractive peeling<br />
bark. A tree that’s beautiful all year. Height:<br />
10m (34ft), spread: 10m (34ft).<br />
Trachycarpus fortunei<br />
Exotic large green palm fronds and yellow<br />
flowers in June. Needs winter protection.<br />
Height: 20m (65ft), spread: 2.5m (8ft4in).<br />
I see many gardens that are<br />
all exactly the same and<br />
planted at one level – why not<br />
try something new and<br />
different? Climbers can work<br />
wonders, so go for an akebia or<br />
Tropaeolum speciosum<br />
growing up an up obelisk – it’ll<br />
look wonderful.<br />
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