BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 14 Nov 2024
It's Christmas!
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IMPROVE YOUR SOIL
ESCAPE TO SPAIN
FRUITFUL CUTS
Welcome
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Your 11-page December planner
Enjoy productive pottering this winter in your greenhouse
Add long-lasting colour with Nick’s easy pot display
On the cover
Explore 21 pages of festive inspiration to put your garden at the heart of your celebrations
Get your fruit in good shape – from apples to blackcurrants
Nick Bailey: plant up and protect your winter pots
Timely tips for hassle-free harvests
Christmas puzzles and crossword
Monty’s Spanish gardens tour
Problems with split potatoes
Have Christmas trees lost their sparkle?
We love December
What to spot in December
Step-by-step DIY: make a brick path
Plant something new: edgeworthia
The growing cost of garden waste
Full Monty: 2024 at Longmeadow
Create an evergreen pot display
2 for 1 Gardens with festive pines
Expert’s choice: chamaecyparis
10 crops to sow and plant now
Keep busy in your greenhouse
Have your say: readers’ letters
Winter pruning apple trees
Gardeners’ Question Time
Tales from Titchmarsh
Around the garden
Adam’s essentials
Back to basics
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Next month
Flowers
Explore 21 pages of festive inspiration to put your garden at the heart of your celebrations
Fill your garden with colourful lupins, aquilegias and hollyhocks
Book now to tour the Scottish borders
Naturally festive Make gorgeous decorations using foraged greenery
Perfect presents Inspirational gardening gift ideas for all budgets
Poinsettia care tips Keep these Christmas classics thriving for years
Celebrate homegrown Delicious recipes that give your veg a star role
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We love December
We love December
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Imbricata Pendula’
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Ellwoodii’
Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana Gracilis’
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Sungold’
Experts’ choice With di erent shapes, colours and growing heights, it’s time to rethink the much-maligned conifer,
Chamaecyparis
Experts’ choice With di erent shapes, colours and growing heights, it’s time to rethink the much-maligned conifer,
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Wissel’s Saguaro’
FREE* 9 bare-root perennials for every reader
FREE* 9 bare-root perennials for every reader
The Full Monty
Wildlife concerns
A childhood remedy
Do makeovers need a makeover?
Zingy zinnias
Give your laundry pride of place
CHRISTMAS PUZZLES ANSWERS
This month’s prize
Over the fence
Garden waste is no longer a throwaway matter
Dig into the key role of soil
Zebra lawn wins stripes down
Wisley’s Oudolf Landscape opens
See the light this winter
Greening up London’s South Bank
A coldie but goldie
Winter wanderland
Big is beautiful
A frond to all
Frosted tips
Discover more in 2025
Container of the month
WE USED
More container inspiration
More container inspiration
Edgeworthia chrysantha
Planting a shrub
Why you should grow Edgeworthia chrysantha
Matthew Pottage
Christmas in every sense
Christmas in every sense
Craft a woodland table centrepiece
Monty’s Spanish gardens
Monty’s Spanish gardens
MORE SPANISH GARDENS TO VISIT
The Perfect Christmas Gift for All Gardeners
Christmas
Chair swag
Christmas decorations
PROLONG YOUR poinsettia
PROLONG YOUR poinsettia
Help your poinsettia thrive
■ A brief history
Expand your poinsettia palette
Heavenly double hellebores
Christmas gifts FOR GARDENERS
Stocking fi ers...
A steal...
...Splurge
Celebrate WITH VEG Impress family and friends this year with these delicious recipes from Mark Diacono and make vegetables the highlight of your Christmas feast
Celebrate WITH VEG Impress family and friends this year with these delicious recipes from Mark Diacono and make vegetables the highlight of your Christmas feast
Shallot & beetroot tarte tatin
A perfect salad
MAKE IT HOMEGROWN
MAKE IT HOMEGROWN
Spiced squash & apple cake
MAKE IT HOMEGROWN
Discover the gardens of the Scottish Borders
BESPOKE TOUR
YOUR ACCOMMODATION
HEALTHY & HAPPY UNDER GLASS
HEALTHY & HAPPY UNDER GLASS
These gardening jobs will make all the di erence to your plants over winter – and you’ll feel the benefit, too
Give yourself a well earned recharge over the winter period with a few of these restful greenhouse rituals
THE WORLD’S WARMEST BASELAYER®
Potting on a winter show PART 1
Potting on a winter show PART 1
Create your container display
You will need
Thrifty tip
Prepare and protect your pots
DIY garden projects
DIY garden projects
How to build a brick path
How to build a brick path
Other path styles to try
Stepping-stone or plank path
◀ Woodchip path
Your wildlife month
Your wildlife month
Hassle-free harvests
Growing guide
WHAT TO DO NOW
Keep collecting fallen leaves
Don’t forget
Prevent ponds from freezing
Prepare Christmas trees
Shape prunings into stakes
Prune damaged tree branches
Sow tree seed
Water mixed containers
Plant hellebores in pots
Stake to prevent wind rock damage
Look out for coral spot
Don’t forget
BEGONIA BONANZA COLLECTION
MORE OFFERS
Plant cyclamen in pots
Remove infected rose leaves
Deadhead rhododendrons
Don’t forget
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
TOP TIP
Bring on forced bulbs
STEP BY STEP Prune climbing roses
Cut lowerheads from rudbeckia
The Christmas Rose
Mulch borders
4 WAYS TO mulch beds and borders
Plant bare-root blackberry canes
STEP BY STEP Plant a bare-root blackberry
Water your winter crops
Top up beds and tidy up
Check heaters
Don’t forget
QUICK SOLUTIONS
Li t and divide rhubarb plants
Plan ahead for next year
Apply lime to acidic brassica beds
Pick Brussels sprouts
Harvest kale leaves
Support loppy broad beans
Next month
Deal with apple canker
Don’t forget
Keep Christmas cacti happy
Tips for watering mixed displays
Don’t forget
Take cuttings of tradescantia
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
QUICK SOLUTIONS
YOUR PRUNING MONTH
YOUR PRUNING MONTH
Plants to prune now
Don’t prune these now
Step by step
Winter pruning apple trees
Also prune or train now
Top tip
Split potatoes
Gardeners’ Question Time
Q Why were half of my potatoes misshapen?
TOP TIP
Q What can I plant to soak up intermittent flooding?
Gardeners’ Question Time
Q How can I make a large, steeply sloping garden more accessible?
Q Help! My new lawn appears under attack!
Q Can I grow Japanese anemones from seed?
Q Why are my onions so odd?
Q What made my apple tree’s leaves go yellow in the summer?
Q How did this unusual-looking dahlia happen?
gardeners’ question time
Q I have white lumps in my compost. Should I worry?
Q Why did my sweetcorn produce smaller, more numerous cobs?
Q How can we get an amaryllis bulb to flower again?
Q Are co ee grounds in my hot composter bad for seedlings?
Q How can I get marker ink o plant labels?
Ask the Woodland Trust
Q My dad’s weird cucumbers… what has happened?
Q No flowers on my hydrangea last summer. Help!
Q How can I improve our soil without moving the plants?
Q Can I spread spent peat-free compost onto my borders?
What can I create?
Q What should I do about Australian flatworms living in my garden?
Q No fruit on my pruned cordon damsons. Why?
Q Why have my oxeye daisies been absolute rubbish this year?
Q Why does my African lily have curly stems?
Making mincemeat
Going nuts
Christmas colour
Hidden flavours
Step by step
PUZZLES
Christmas crossword
Tasty To ee Treats
Everybody Needs a Pair!
Comfort with Style – Leather Mules
Acacia Honey Natural Co ee Syrups
Suction Based Knife Sharpener
A Practically Perfect Christmas Gift
Perfect for any BBQ Lover
St. Eval
The Perfect Festive Gift!
Send Herbs not Flowers this Christmas!
Rain Hat Collection
Christin Ranger Lights up Christmas
Devenick Designs
Bespoke Collectable Sculpture
A Skincare Product that Works
St Anthony Holiday Cottages
Commission a Sculpture of Your Pets
Luxury Lodge Holidays
Steam Adventures
Okatsune Gift Set
Storm Strength from Shetland
The Sussex Trug
Pottery Gifts by ArtyPax
Beautiful Gifts for Gorgeous Gardens!
Premium Japanese Gardening Tools
Handmade by Whichford Pottery
Tales from Titchmarsh
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