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.

Welcome

Meet the Contributors • “This month in the garden I’ll be…”

Celebrate BURSTING WITH SPRING JOY • Swathes of vibrant contrasting colours and textures make a glorious border

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

Set for Easter • Get a fresh new look for an elegant table

STREETS TAKE A STARRING ROLE FOR FLORAL FIESTA

THE ARCHERS 75TH ANNIVERSARY GARDEN

Wish list • It’s all in the name for these Easter-blooming plants symbolising new beginnings

How to add value to your home WITH A GARDEN! • Whether on the verge of selling or not, Greg Loades shows there are lots of things that will improve your plot as an asset

QUICK FIXES TO BOOST THE GARDEN • The following ideas really are fast and instant, but they can make a big difference if you have a potential buyer coming to look at your house.

Heritage vegetables: GROWING WHAT LASTS • Olga Grieves looks to the past to safeguard flavour-packed heirloom veg for the future

Spring-flowering CLEMATIS • Scrambling over supports and into trees, these plants are a true delight of the season, says Sue Fisher

April • It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

CREATE A LIVING SCREEN • Plants offer a colourful, leafy alternative to bare walls and fences

Plant chic alpines IN CONTAINERS • Create cheery displays in pots and troughs

Sprinkling DESIGN MAGIC • Apply these simple principles to your plot for dazzling results!

The best B&Bs FOR WILD AND WONDERFUL BEES • Adrian Thomas outlines the simplest and most effective ways to help accommodate these important guests

From barren new-build to stylish sanctuary • Karen Rogers and her husband Robert downsized to a townhouse and turned a small, paved courtyard garden into a little oasis

Solid and serene • Spring is heralded with a rich array of rocky gems in this wonderful west Scottish garden

Seeing tulips in a new light • Piers Horry, garden and outdoors manager at Dyrham Park, in South Gloucestershire, explains why he loves this picture-perfect piece of perry orchard

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Welcome to my lovely plot • There is nothing quite like the taste of the first tomato of the summer for Olga Grieves. Here’s her guide to the perfect growing conditions

APRIL IS WORTH THE WAIT • It’s all systems grow in Fiona’s small, town garden in Lincolnshire now that spring is here

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

Q&A • How do I grow a clivia? Why do hydrangeas always seem to fail? Read on…

WOODLAND GARDENS • Turn a shady corner into a lush, wildlife-rich woodland garden this April by working with nature

Keeping your garden RIGHT AS RAIN! • Geoff Hodge brings you the goods that will help you save and store the stuff of life – water!

Over to you!

Garden Answers

Diascia Trinity Collection • You’ll love this vibrant, long-flowering garden favourite

The sweetest toms ever • Meet cherry tomato ‘Sungold SuperSweet’… an outstanding golden-orange bush variety bursting with intensely sweet flavour

Pink powerhouse for summer • Bursting with bubblegum-pink blooms from spring to the first frosts, petunia ‘Bubblegum’ brings standout performance

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword for a chance to win one of 12 begonia ‘Apricot Shades Improved’ worth £14.99 each. Entry form...