BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 10 Apr 2025
The romance of roses
ADVICE FROM OUR EXPERTS
17 pages of essential timely tasks
Alan’s greenhouse ACTION PLAN
Cordless mowers
PEST-BUSTING plant partners
Create a mini WILDLIFE POND
Welcome to May
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Make a Metre Matter
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Learn mindful gardening with Ashley Edwards
We reveal the best self-propelled mowers
Discover the plant highlights of South Africa’s western cape
Fill sunny pots and borders with fragrant lavender
See the Grand Canyon on an unforgettable trip
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Monty on growing and displaying alpines and succulents
Make a Metre Matter – by
creating a wildlife pond
Sue Kent cultivates gardening joy with fuss-free flower borders
Keep on top of your veg plot with essential tasks for the month
Gardeners’ Question Time
Make more of your greenhouse with Alan’s summer action plan
Discover creative ways to grow Adam Frost’s favourite herbs
Get set to enter our Gardens of the Year competition by 9 June
Garden globetrotting: the amazing plants of South Africa
Discover novelist Patrick Gale’s rose-filled Cornish sanctuary
Relax with Ashley Edwards’ guide to mindful gardening
Discover the glorious gardens of the Scottish borders
Get free P&P on a collection of five vibrant chrysanthemums
Save 15% on an escorted trip to California and Las Vegas
Nick Bailey on companion planting for better crops
Save 30% on a gourmet stay at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire
Save £25 on a pair of exotic, fragrant-flowered oleanders
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Explore the gardens of Marrakech on a five-day tour
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On test: self-propelled mowers
Root of the matter: design fads
Full Monty: growing from seed
Veg and herbs to sow now
Crossword and puzzles
Expert’s choice: wisteria
Tales from Titchmarsh
We love May
Monty creates striking displays with succulents and alpines
Get better crops with Nick Bailey’s planting advice
Around the garden
Sue Kent has inspiring ideas for fuss-free borders
How to grow Adam Frost’s favourite herbs
It’s a busy month on the city smallholding
On the cover
Sow your FREE seeds
Adam’s essentials
Back to basics
House plants
Fruit & veg
Pruning
Flowers
Wildlife
Skills
We love May
AS SWEET AS PIE
COTTON CANDY CLOUDS
YELLOW POPSICLE
Grass snake, Natrix helvetica
YOU MAY SPOT…
RASPBERRY RIPPLE
TAFFY TREAT
The Full Monty
Expert’s choice Wisteria
Expert’s choice Wisteria
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Magnificient magnolias
2 for 1 Gardens
Poet’s corner
Wild at heart
Summer romance
A living work of art
Treasury of trees
All things bright and beautiful
Some like it hot
Focus on succulent care
6 easy-to-grow alpines and succulents
What a relief
Seven symptoms to look out for
Go with the flow
Get out into the woods
Cultivating joy
Cultivating joy
Personal checklist
When more is more
That feels better
Master your mix
Reliable vegetable companions
The winning formula
Beyond the herb bed
Beyond the herb bed
Favourite herbs to mix and match
Blooming lovely
Blooming lovely
LEGO® BOTANICALS TINY PLANTS
Create a wildlife pond
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Elements of your pond
Dos & don’ts
■ Nic Wilson’s book
Root of the matter
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WHAT TO DO NOW
Plant annual climbers
Tackle topiary
Kids review kits
Add emergency stakes
Water young annuals carefully
Check pots for snails and remove
Remove mare’s tail from beds
Toughen plants up in a cold frame
DON’T FORGET
Ready, set, mow
Give ceanothus a spring trim
Ceanothus
Tidy up early-flowering spiraea
Thin out deutzias
Enjoy a luxury gardens and gourmet stay in Yorkshire
Plant freesia bulbs now
Planting freesia bulbs
3 reasons to grow Eschscholzia ‘Orange King’
Sowing your Californian poppies from seed
Sow your FREE seeds
More expert advice
Sowalong together
3 reasons to grow lettuce Salad Bowl Mix
Sowing your lettuce Salad Bowl Mix from seed
Take part in No Mow May
Make mud for red mason bees
Learn birdsong
DON’T FORGET
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Plant out geums
‘Chelsea chop’ perennials
Feed agapanthus
Sort tulips
QUICK SOLUTIONS
Pinch out summer bedding
Take new hebe cuttings
Tidy alpines
DON’T FORGET
Exotic oleander bush
Pot up bedding and hardy plants
Creating a bedding and hardy plants container
Plant out a pot-grown rose
Planting out a pot-grown rose
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Use pheromone traps on fruit
Feed pot crops
Pull raspberry suckers out
DON’T FORGET
Cut back and harvest thyme
Plant celery
Train growth on tomato plants
Explore the horticultural wonders of Marrakech
Accommodation
Tour highlights
Repot cymbidiums
Colour match your pots
DON’T FORGET
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Stop. Relax. Enjoy
How to garden mindfully
Create a more peaceful garden
Garden globetrotting: Western Cape
Garden globetrotting: Western Cape
Inspired by the Western Cape
GREEN HOUSE GROWING
ALAN’S TIPS FOR GREENHOUSE GROWING
Classical Spain
THE WONDERS OF SPAIN
Self-propelled mowers make light work of lawns, even on slopes. Reviews Editor puts seven to the test, to help you find the best choice for your garden
Greenworks 24V+24V lawn mower 46cm SP £434.99
Ego LM1702E-SP 42cm selfpropelled mower (kit) £619
Worx Nitro WG749E 40V 46cm cordless selfpropelled mower £449.99
Stihl RMA 448 RV rear roller cordless mower £919
Cobra MX 460S40V £438.99
Husqvarna LC 142iS with battery and charger £659
Stiga Collector 48 S AE Kit £455
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Having built his garden from scratch, author Patrick Gale shares the challenges he faces having one of England’s most westerly walled rose gardens and the plants he holds dearest
Patrick’s favourite roses
What you could win
Meet our expert judges
Composing your photos
How to enter
THE GOOD LIFE
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Gardeners’ Question Time
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Q Can I grow ageratums indoors, with enough light?
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