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 WINTER’S DELICATE CHARMS • Hellebores, cyclamen, chionodoxa and snowdrops may look fragile but they are hardy enough to fight through the chill and burst into exquisite, vibrant blooms ready for the world to enjoy

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

Seeing red • Fall in love with these red hot gifts for gardeners on Valentine’s Day

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Wish list • Enjoy beautiful houseplants with the longest lasting flowering periods

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Musical matters • The following plants all have a musical connection. Can you identify them?

What’s on…

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30-minute makes • Create an inexpensive rustic garden container using natural materials gathered from nearby woodlands, such as winter aconites, snowdrops, birch bark, moss, viburnum foliage, alder catkins and pussy willow.

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Book of the month

Dainty DARLINGS • For Sue Fisher, few sights are more welcome in the depths of winter than the flowering of the very first bulbs

Star plants for STUNNING WINTER CONTAINERS • Val Bourne creates magnificent winter pot displays with carefully-selected perennials

Grow gorgeous GALANTHUS • Snowdrops are harbingers of early spring and their surprisingly varied, delicate-looking blooms dazzle in the wintry sunshine, says Sue Fisher

February • From tidying up bamboo to planting potfuls of daffs, spring cleaning the greenhouse and protecting blossom, things are about to get very busy in the garden again

PLAN SUMMER POT DISPLAYS • Choose a stunning mix of summer container plants to adorn your patio

MAKE EARLY SOWINGS • Start off slow-growing annuals, hardy sweet peas and quick-flowering perennials for a real feast of summer colour in 2025

Plant a vibrant WINTER RAINBOW • Light up your winter with easy dogwoods, a coloured stemmed willow and a carpet of early narcissus and scillas

Stigloos, dead hedges & totem poles – from prunings to… • Adrian Thomas looks at creative things to do with logs and sticks that also give garden wildlife a home

Melding quintessentially English and Mediterranean • The grounds of a country hotel in Shropshire cleverly combine all the elements of a traditional English garden with the evocative scent of hot European summers. Fiona Cumberpatch explores

RELAX IN NATURAL BEAUTY • A country garden full of wildlife, salvaged water features and a handsome workman’s hut on wheels, Liz Potter finds a secret treasure around every corner

A river runs through it • Relaxed planting and tumbledown glasshouses in a garden of friendship in Dorset

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Welcome to my lovely plot • Excitement is building as shoots of hope begin to spring up all over the allotment

Only the JUICIEST WILL DO • ‘Orkado’ F1 tomatoes are a fantastic choice for grow bags in our changeable British summers

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

Q&A • Why don’t snowdrop bulbs flower? Can I help an ailing cherry tree? Read on…

Garden RESCUE • Combine plants for height, colour, shape and texture for a visually pleasing display that will delight you, says Ian Hodgson

Caring for outdoor furniture • Geoff Hodge peruses products to...