BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 14 Aug 2025
Time for the harvest
12 pages of essential timely tasks
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42 AUTUMN PROBLEMS
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A succession of colour with bulbs in borders
Create your own private prairie
Everlasting wreaths, naturally
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2 for 1 Gardens: wildlife havens
Seeing double: autumn pots
Fun projects for all the family
Monty on maximising colour
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Expert’s choice: crocosmias
Seasonal problem-solving
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Sara Ward’s veg plot tasks
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Full Monty: climate change
Relax at Bath’s Francis Hotel
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Bring borders back to life with bulbs
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Back to basics
House plants
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Pruning
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Expert’s choice Crocosmias
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Right plant, right place
Welsh wildlife paradise
Wild at heart
Make your colours sing
Make your colours sing
Using the colour wheel
Five of Carol’s favourite salvias
Carol’s top tips on growing salvias
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Around the garden
Adam’s essentials
Test your skills
Back to basics
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Pruning
Wildlife
Flowers
Tidy up rockeries
Redefine lawn edges and beds
Use homemade compost as a mulch
Grow cerinthe in pots
Create an autumn pot display
Scarify lawns
DON’T FORGET
Plant foxgloves
Give support to kale and sprouts
Water newly sown grass seed
BEECHGROVE’S BACK
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Kids review kits
Compost dry waste
Remove suckers from trees
Plant anemones in containers
STEP BY STEP Planting Anemone coronaria tubers
Prune overgrown laurels
STEP BY STEP Prune laurels
STEP BY STEP Tidy up gooseberries
Cut back daylilies
Plant a potgrown tree now
STEP BY STEP Planting a tree
Make an amphibian hibernaculum
Look out for hoglets
Plant bulbs for wildlife
DON’T FORGET
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Keep annuals blooming
STEP BY STEP Divide perennials
Look out for leaf cutter bee
FLOWERS
Harvest seeds of nasturtium
Look after dahlias
Tidy faded annual climbers
DON’T FORGET
Pick fruits as they ripen
HOW TO harvest your ripe apples, berries, pears and plums
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Give a feed to streptocarpus
Take pothos cuttings
Plant hyacinths for festive blooms
DON’T FORGET
Remove shading from panes
Pot up parsley
Harvest ripened sweet peppers
DON’T FORGET
Maintain your outdoor tomatoes
Harvest carrots
Rein in wandering squash stems
Cut back mint
DON’T FORGET
Continue harvesting courgettes
Plant onion sets
Plant out chard
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It’s harvest time!
It’s harvest time!
1 Plait onions
Use and storage
Step by step
3 Make chilli powder
2 Fill lavender bags
Step by step
Use and storage
Use and storage
Plan a harvest festival
Step by step
4 Get composting
Use and storage
Big bulb BONANZA
Big bulb BONANZA
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Plant gallery
How to plant
From prairie to plot
From prairie to plot
GRASSES
Essential prairie plants for your plot
Prairie gardens for wildlife
Maintain your prairie plants
Garden globetrotting: Estonia
Garden globetrotting: Estonia
Inspired by Estonia
Welcome in the autumn
Ombré wreath
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Clematis vitalba vine wreath
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Teasel and cardoon garland on plaited rope
Dried flower arrangement
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Sort out sickly plants
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Harvest MADE EASY!
How to tell when a crop is ready to harvest
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September Growing guide
Q Which light, airy flowers can I grow to add to my daughter’s bridal bouquet?
Gardeners’ Question Time
Q What made my aeonium flower?
Q Help! I’m struggling to raise plants in peat-free compost
Q Why are the leaves of my rose rolled up, with bugs inside?
Q What are your suggestions to avoid using plastic labels?
Q Can I propagate gaura and should I cut it back?
Q Should I keep the old greenhouse on my new allotment?
Q How can I help my young fruit trees to produce fruit?
Q When should I plant lilies for a July birthday?
Q Is this normal in a rose flower?
Q Why doesn’t my Akebia longeracemosa flower?
Q Are there any eco-friendly strimmers?
Q Why don’t my patio peaches flesh out?
Q How can I incorporate an old hardcore parking bay into the garden?
Q Will a rain garden stop flooding at my new house?
Q Why are myn wistreria flowers short and late?
Q Any chemical-free solutions to ground elder?
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Apples & cheese please!
Garden showdown
A taste of autumn
Colourful confusion
Seasonal secrets
Step by step
Berried treasures
Crossword
Heron Sculpture in Polished Stainless Steel
Autumn Colour at Hever Castle
Peak District Lodge Holidays
St Anthony Holiday Cottages
Timeless Earrings, Thoughtfully Made
The Sussex Trug
Get Baking with Organic Extracts
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