Garden News (UK) - 24 Jun 2025
HAPPY 80TH CAROL!
What to do NOW!
FREE SEEDS
RED HOT BLOOMS
We’re the UK’s biggest-selling gardening mag!
Our Carol at 80 – what a star!
Sow plenty of herbs
Our cover star: Carol Klein
Garden of the Week
Fill gaps in the border
Stefan Buczacki troubleshoots for you – the best ground cover for a rose bed, dealing with red lily beetle and more
Red alert! Master the art of using fab, fiery flowers to their best in your garden
Fill gaps in borders, edge paths and other jobs to do now for your flower garden
Kitchen Gardener Rob Smith gives figs and apples some mid-season care
Garden Helpers – who’s been keeping you company on your plot?
Happy birthday to Carol Klein as she shares 80 plants for 80 years
Nick Bailey shows you how to do colour – the Chelsea way!
Get an eco-friendly pond clearer and beautiful new pond plants
Sow herbs, cover soft fruit and more tasks for fruit and veg
How to help the reptiles and amphibians that visit your plot
Tamsin Westhorpe knows how to get perfect penstemons
Our tribute to Carol – for she’s a jolly good fellow!
Treat yourself to cheerful summer pansies
Be The First To Grow... Chelsea finalists
Plant an unusual hanging basket
News from the gardening world
Take a look at readers’ gardens
Karen Gimson’s plum clafoutis
Win prizes with our crossword
Your letters and photos
Garden of the Week
CULTIVATING THE RIGHT TO GROW!
Famous garden is in new hands
HOUSEBUILDING RISKS BIODIVERSITY
Chelsea plant finalists for summer sparkle
Monastery garden reopens
TRY THIS FAVOURITE!
GARDEN helpers!
A French connection!
A French connection!
Maud’s key seasonal plants…
… and her top gardening tips
RED-DY, STEADY, GROW!
RED-DY, STEADY, GROW!
CRIMSON
MAROON
CHILLI RED
VERMILLION
TRUE RED
CLARET
SCARLET
RUBY
BURGUNDY
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
Did you know?
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
Did you know?
MY 80 PLANTS FOR 80 YEARS!
Our Carol is a force of nature!
Our Carol is a force of nature!
What they say about Carol
Bouncing back from a dry spell
Watering and lots of weeding!
My highlight
All is looking revived thanks to the rain showers
Watering and lots of weeding!
My highlight
My highlight
Busy days but blooms galore
My highlight
PLANT AN UNUSUAL HANGING BASKET
FILL GAPS IN BORDERS
GARDEN NEWS RECOMMENDS
DAMP DOWN THE GREENHOUSE
EDGE PATHS
DEADHEAD PEONIES
REMOVE REVERTED SHOOTS
FEED DAHLIAS
COLOUR THE CHELSEA WAY
Still time to sow some annuals
SOW PLENTY OF HERBS
GROW MORE RADISH
COVER SOFT FRUIT
GARDEN NEWS RECOMMENDS
PICK SOME HONEYBERRIES
Figs, nips and fruitful tips!
My rhubarb needs TLC!
KITCHEN GARDENER Rob Smith
Figs, nips and fruitful tips!
Plum clafoutis
Method
Ingredients
NEXT WEEK Late beans and spuds
Grow perfect penstemons
Tamsin Westhorpe
NEXT WEEK The secrets to your best-ever roses
What is good ground cover for a rose bed?
FOUR WELL-BEHAVED PLANTS FOR GROUND COVER
How can I save time watering my crops?
Why are my plum leaves curling?
Any idea what this lovely houseplant might be?
Is it too late to do the ‘Chelsea chop’?
What are the bees with white bottoms that are nesting in my bird box?
Do carrot flies always fly close to the ground?
Why don’t my growing bag sweet peas flower?
How do I get rid of red lily beetle?
What is this problematic weed?
Why do my roses still have black spot?
How often should I water pot-grown shrubs?
How do I grow cestrum?
When is the best time to take cuttings from our rosemary hedge?
We have a mother-inlaw’s tongue plant and it has flowered. Is this unusual?
I have a beautiful white phalaenopsis orchid, which is flowering but too big for its container – when should I repot it?
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Cheers to the chair!
Best of this week’s short & sweets!
Shelf help for plants
Howzat for style!
Vertical victory
Sow unruly!
Pond Plant Collection
The easy way to clear your pond!
Add cheery colour with Pansy ‘Summertime Mix’
Pansy ‘Autumn Blaze Mix’
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