BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 17 Okt 2024
Best reader gardens
TIME TO WRAP UP
PROBLEM SPOT?
PRUNING BASICS
Make FREE perennials with Adam’s guide
Help your house plants this winter
POWERED SECATEURS
Grow fresh windowsill superfoods
Create the perfect compost
Welcome
Which garden won our Judges’ Choice award?
Frances shows you what to prune now
Alan helps you choose plants for tricky spots
Top tips to keep your house plants thriving this winter
Make the right buy with our review of powered pruners
On the cover
Gardens of the Year: discover 2024’s first winning garden
Timely tips for hassle-free harvests
Monty on protecting tender plants
Bamboo: dying after flowering
What to spot in November
How might government reforms a ect our gardens?
We love November
Crossword
Leaves on lawns: remove or leave?
Winter care for your house plants
Expert’s choice: panicum grasses
Full Monty: the joy of winter birds
Plant something new: quince tree
November’s 3 key pruning jobs
Create a cool winter pot display
2 for 1 Gardens with great lakes
Alan’s plants for problem places
Have your say: readers’ letters
10 crops to sow and plant now
Composting made simple
Gardeners’ Question Time
On test: powered pruners
Tales from Titchmarsh
Next month
Follow Monty’s survival strategies to get your tender plants through winter
Simple steps to make perfect compost
Keep on cropping with easy sowing and plot-care jobs
Light up sunny pots and borders with three free* bare-root agapanthus plants
Cruise to Norway for amazing scenery, flora and fauna
Which garden won our Judges’ Choice award?
Alan helps you choose plants for tricky spots
Top tips to keep your house plants thriving this winter
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Around the garden
Enjoy a 16-day summer Arctic cruise, joined by Adam Frost
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Save over 50% on a collection of four oriental poppies
Save £19.99 when you buy a pair of compact duo fruit trees
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Adam’s essentials
Test your skills
Back to basics
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Flowers
We love November
We love November
Experts’ choice
Experts’ choice
The Full Monty
Making the most of bountiful harvests
Legendary veg
Sharing the love
Inspiring a new generation of gardeners
Write to us at
ACROSS
My version of Longmeadow heaven
This month’s prize
Over the fence
Have your say
Government reforms could affect our gardens
Digging deeper
Alan’s frosty winter story
Nursery reservoir saves water
Poison Garden companion
The art of fungi
Older trees best at capturing CO
Pining for beauty
Reflect on this
2 for 1 Gardens
Explore hidden depths
Bridging the generations
Discover more in 2024
Ripples of history
Container of the month
Container of the month
Cydonia oblonga (quince)
Planting bare-root trees
Why you should grow Cydonia oblonga
Gemma Sturges
Show us what you are growing
Wrapping up for winter
Wrapping up for winter
HOW TO GAUGE WHAT’S HARDY
TIPS FOR PROTECTING PLANTS
The art of composting
The art of composting
Becky Searle
Did you know?
Bin, bay or chop and drop?
Did you know?
Did you know?
The perfect compost
Gardens of the Year 2024
Meet the judging panel
“I love waking early, making a coffee and sitting on my bench at the bottom of the garden – seeing what’s changed, what’s growing, what’s fading”
“I love waking early, making a coffee and sitting on my bench at the bottom of the garden – seeing what’s changed, what’s growing, what’s fading”
Gardeners’ cruise to Spain and France
This year’s prizes
Thoughts from the experts
Cast your vote
Plants for problem places
Plants for problem places
Perfect plants for problem spots
Plants for heavy clay soil
Plants for windy sites
Plants for dry, sunny spots
Winter house plant care
Winter house plant care
Winter problem-solving
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Powered pruners explained
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How to choose powered prnudners
THE WORLD’S WARMEST BASELAYER®
Your wildlife month
Your wildlife month
Hassle-free harvests
3 ways to reduce garden plastic
3 more tasks for winter
WHAT TO DO NOW
Plant bare-root roses
Protect potted bulbs
Create a winter display
Harvest the last of the turnips
Bring on forced bulbs
PLUS ◼ Taking root cuttings ◼ Cleaning bird tables ◼ Dividing astrantias ◼ Planting daffodils ◼ Caring for citrus plants
Move compost sacks indoors
Give bird tables a good clean
Tidy borders
Protect bulbs in containers
Plant cornus for colourful stems
Get evergreens into the ground
Don’t forget
Tie down any loose rose stems
Hard prune overgrown shrubs
Leave seedheads to feed birds
Don’t forget
Li t and divide astrantias
STEP BY STEP
Plant a colourthemed pot
STEP BY STEP
Place mesh over bulbs in pots
Take hardwood cuttings of shrubs
Plant daffodils in borders
Look out for downy mildew
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
QUICK SOLUTIONS
Get perennials planted
STEP BY STEP
Plant up tulips for windowboxes
Don’t forget
Take root cuttings
STEP BY STEP
STEP BY STEP
Bring chard under cover
Don’t forget
QUICK SOLUTIONS
Water and feed citrus
Bring forced bulbs into light if ready
Pinch out sweet peas
Clear out greenhouse gutters
Cut back asparagus stems
STEP BY STEP
Tidy strawberries
Harvest the last turnips
Sharpen edges of bladed tools
Cover winter veg
Next month
Don’t forget
YOUR PRUNING MONTH
Other plants to prune now
Don’t prune these now
Step by step
Winter preparation
Also prune or train now
Top tip
Bamboo flowers
Q Are all the black bamboos dying right now, including mine?
For extra problem-solving expertise
TOP TIP
TEAM ANSWER
Gardeners’ Question Time
Q What should I plant to replace a dead apple tree?
Q Overwintering tips for Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’ please?
Q Our rehomed hibiscus drops buds, but not neighbours’. Why?
Q My ‘Marshmello’ strawberries are bearing fruits now. Do I remove them?
Q What low-maintenance trailing house plant can I put on a high shelf in a conservatory?
Q What wrong with my saggy conifer?
Q White spots on my camellia’s leaves – problem?
Q What’s gone wrong with my yellowing raspberries?
Q My raspberries are taking over the garden. Help!
Q My ‘spoilt’ ipomoeas flowered poorly. Why? Jill Palmer, by email
Q My pelargonium flowers non-stop?
Q Why is my peace lily’s bract going green? Susan Young, by email
Ask the Woodland Trust
Q My tangerine is shedding leaves, is all sticky and bears poor fruit. What’s up?
Q What now for my agapanthus?
Q My viburnum has shrivelled up. Help! Anne Moore, East Sussex
Q My cherry tree went yellow long before autumn. What’s wrong with it?
Q What’s going on with this very unusual tomato?
Q Is my old cotoneaster beyond all hope?
Send in your questions
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