BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 13 Mrz 2025
SUMMER BLOOMS guaranteed Monty shows how
Welcome to April
Make a Metre Matter
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Monty plants with summer bulbs at Longmeadow
Herald spring with Shilpa Reddy’s makes
How to Make a Metre Matter
Visit the coastal city of Essaouira in Morocco
Boost your borders with 24 free perennials
Mixing plants with Nick Bailey:
successional planting
Sara Ward’s April jobs on the urban smallholding
Gardeners’ Question Time
Crossword and puzzles
How to tame the spring garden: Frances’s guide for beginners
The best new dahlias to grow in your garden this year
Gardens of the Year finalist:
from bare to brilliant
Make a Metre Matter: how to create a mini veg patch
We love April
2 for 1 Gardens for spring blooms
Garden globetrotting: Morocco
Root of the matter: social media
Full Monty: adapting to change
Shilpa Reddy’s spring makes
What to sow and plant now
How to grow herbs in pots
Deep dive: climate change
Expert’s choice: aquilegia
Tales from Titchmarsh
On test: soil rakes
Next month
Frances shows how to get ahead in springtime
Nick Bailey’s easy guide to planting up for constant colour
Your 18-page April planner
Lilies are just one of Monty’s top summer bulbs
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Explore Morocco’s loveliest gardens
Dahlia ‘Bettina Verbeek’, photo by Getty/Alex Manders
Sow your FREE seeds
Around the garden
Adam’s essentials
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Pruning
Flowers
Wildlife
Basics
Skills
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The Full Monty
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Kitchen pink
Springtime spectacular
Great debate
The cherry on top
Seasonal spectrum
SUMMER splendour
SUMMER splendour
HOW TO PLANT FREESIAS
Blooming showcases
Blooming showcases
It’s show time
Spring reflections
Spring reflections
Stand to attention
In the know: trusted resources for gardeners
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Space-savvy crops
Growing small savings into a dream garden
Root of the matter
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WHAT TO DO N W
Sow your free seeds
Adam’s essentials
Around the garden
Back to basics
Test your skills
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Pruning
Wildlife
Flowers
Plant pond marginals
MINUTES TO SPARE
Swap spent bulbs in pots
Move evergreens
Clear plant debris from your pond
Revive dry perennials
DON’T FORGET
Add slow-release food to pots
Erect trellis to support climbers
Take cuttings of pelargoniums
DON’T FORGET
EXTRA 10% SAVING ON DAHLIAS
Sow your FREE seeds
STEP BY STEP
Sowalong together
3 reasons to grow spring onion ‘White Lisbon’
3 reasons to grow sun lower ‘Hallo’
STEP BY STEP
Keep rosemary productive
STEP BY STEP Prune rosemary
Prune groundcover evergreens
Renovate old hardy fuchsias
Next month!
Make more chrysanthemums
STEP BY STEP Take chrysanthemum cuttings
Create a diverse wild lower area
Grow seedheads for birds to eat
Provide plants for caterpillars
Make a bee bank
DON’T FORGET
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
STEP BY STEP Split catmint clumps to make more plants for free
Add bellis to boost containers
QUICK SOLUTIONS
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Create a colour-themed corner in your plot
Plant out sweet peas
Tie in clematis
DON’T FORGET
Move tender veg to bigger pots
STEP BY STEP Potting on young tender veg plants
Harden o plants in cold frames
Look out for vine weevil larvae
Check and sort viable seeds
Sow French beans in pots
20 MINUTES TO SPARE
Begin potting up plug plants
STEP BY STEP Transplant chilli seedlings
Start butternut squash plants
DON’T FORGET
Sow courgettes
STEP BY STEP Sowing courgettes
PAPER LOVES TREES
Put up bean supports
Plant maincrop potatoes
Flea beetle
DON’T FORGET
Cover soil to help warm it up
Plant out broad beans
Mulch around gooseberries
Grow herbs in containers
Next month!
PAPER REVOLUTION
STEP BY STEP Divide peace lilies
Add pebbles to succulents
DON’T FORGET
Garden globetrotting: Morocco
Garden globetrotting: Morocco
Inspired by Morocco
ON TEST Soil rakes
Soil rakes explained
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Wilkinson Sword carbon steel garden rake £24.99
Greenman stainless steel bow rake £34.95
Kent & Stowe stainless steel soil rake £36.99
Wilkinson Sword stainless steel soil rake £34.99
Kent & Stowe Garden Life stainless steel soil rake £29.99
Burgon & Ball RHS endorsed ground rake £37.99
Sneeboer narrow tine soil rake £96.95
Wolf Garten multi-change soil and close toothed rake £24.99/£19.99 for head, £17.99 for handle
Corona Max heavy duty rake £52.49
Sneeboer narrow tine rake £96.95
Wilkinson Sword carbon steel rake £24.99
Greenman stainless steel soil rake £34.95
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Gardeners’ Question Time
TEAM ANSWER
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Q Can I grow potatoes in compost where rats have been seen?
Q What’s up with my fatsia’s leaves?
Q Which flowers aren’t poisonous to dogs?
Q Is this a weed?
Q What is this plant?
Q When will my yearold wisteria flower?
Q How has my dead wisteria grown a shoot from its base?
Q Is there a way to save my rusty pelargoniums?
Q Which border flowers will thrive in clay soil with lots of slugs?
Q What can I grow in a pot with rhubarb?
Q What’s happened to my pear tree’s new leaves?
Q How should I care for a 25-year-old grapevine?
Q Can I grow two apple trees in my small plot?
Q Is it unusual for this house plant to flower?
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