Garden News (UK) - 26 Aug 2025
PERFECT PASTELS
What to do NOW!
A FANFARE OF TRUMPETS!
‘Dahlias bring bold colours as the seasons start to shift’
Embrace the seasonal change
Collect seed from plants
Our cover star: Anemone ‘Queen Charlotte’
Take a look at readers’ gardens
Stefan Buczacki solves your plot problems, including unhappy potatoes, forcing lily of the valley and the best willows to grow for basket making
Carol Klein turns up the heat with dahlias, plus her gardening week at Glebe Cottage
Karen Gimson’s fabulous gooseberry flan recipe - you’ll want second helpings!
Make a terrarium, take dianthus cuttings and more jobs for the flower garden
Pick and preserve herbs, lift and dry onions and other tasks for fruit and veg
Nick Bailey picks the silver plants that get a gold star for their usefulness!
Garden Helpers - who has been your companion on the plot this week?
Sound the fanfare for easy-to-grow, exotic-looking trumpet vines
Kitchen Gardener Rob Smith experiences some growing gains!
Brilliant bargains on viola and primula collections
The 10 best seedheads for winter wow
Top tips on looking after your fuchsias
Garden of the Week
News from the gardening world
Take a look at readers’ gardens
How to perfect the pastel plot
Win prizes with our crossword
Collect seeds from plants
Your letters and photos
Garden of the Week
New for the Garden
PEAT-FREE SLOWS DOWN
Funding found for viaduct boost
INDUSTRY IN LIMBO
Five years of the Physic!
EGO LM1903E-SP 47CM LAWN MOWER £599
ROAMWILD MULTI-DIGGER SPADE & FORK SET £89.99
BURGON & BALL TELESCOPIC RATCHET LOPPER £48.99
HOZELOCK SERINGA SPRAYER £60.95
GARDEN helpers!
Kathy’s top four plants…
… and her jobs for late summer
Perfecting the PASTEL GARDEN
PASTEL PERFORMERS
PASTEL PERFORMERS
The 10 best seedheads
Stipa barbata
Allium ‘Globemaster’
Tulipa sprengeri
Eryngium
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
Dictamnus albus
Nigella damascena
Eryngium
Phlomis russeliana
Scabiosa stellata ‘Sternkugel’
Dierama
Sound the fanfare for TRUMPET VINES!
Sound the fanfare for TRUMPET VINES!
CLOSELY-RELATED SPECIES
Feel the heat with EVERY DAHLIA
Noteworthy nerines
my gardening DIARY
Sowing, growing and stolen plums!
So many ‘must-have’ favourites in my garden
The plot thickens… with plants!
My highlight
So many ‘must-have’ favourites in my garden
The plot thickens… with plants!
My highlight
My highlight
COLLECT SEEDS FROM PLANTS
MAKE A TERRARIUM
STEP BY STEP
WATER HYDRANGEAS
DEADHEAD DAHLIAS
KEEP SUMMER POTS GOING
TAKE DIANTHUS CUTTINGS
SOW FOXGLOVE SEEDS
SILVER PLANTS ARE GARDEN GOLD!
Pick out a shady star
PICK AND PRESERVE HERBS
Compost old veg plants
KEEP PICKING COURGETTES
TOP TIPS
LIFT AND DRY ONIONS
I’ve got real growing gains!
I’ve got a footloose fig!
I’ve got real growing gains!
Method
Gooseberry flan
Ingredients
Look after your fuchsias
John Nicholass
What is wrong with my potatoes?
FOUR MORE POTATO PROBLEMS
Should I destroy the lily bulbs that have been attacked by pesky lily beetle?
Strawberries have leaves growing out of the fruit!
A mystery plant has grown with my flowers
Small bulbs are attached to my elephant garlic...
The leaves on my avocado are dropping!
What’s wrong with my daphne and buddleja?
Which willows can we grow for basket making?
Can I propagate offsets from my banana plant?
When should I repot my phalaenopsis?
Will my large conifer damage the foundations of the house?
I’ve wrapped my tree fern in straw for the last two winters, but after the winter dieback, no replacement fronds have grown from the top. However, many are growing around the sides.
My onion sets have been badly attacked by white rot. Is there a cure?
Win an alstroemeria jumbo plug WORTH £12.99
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No 31 – August 9
Net gains
Baffled and beaten!
Best of this week’s short & sweets!
Tier we go!
Parting petals
True blue bloomer
Viola ‘Penny’ Collection
Primula ‘Flamenco Mix’
How to grow ferns that will thrive!
LOOK AFTER PLUMS AND MORE JOBS TO DO THIS WEEK
Brighten up your plot with autumn bulbs
CAROL KLEIN
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