BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 18 Sep 2025
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Follow our easy recipes for vibrant bulb displays in pots
Look out for tiny firecrests in your garden this month
Boost your spring display with 20 colourful crocuses
Explore 2 for 1 Gardens with a mysterious or unusual twist
Enjoy a festive day and delicious lunch at Gravetye Manor
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Monty: make and nd use leafmould
Success with garlic – the best varieties and how to grow them
Join Adam Frost on a spring tour of Madeira and Dutch river cruise
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Discover the delights of Spain on Riviera Travel’s two tours
Frances Tophill’s easy ways to save money
The growing importance of
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Full Monty: is it time to start
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Sustainable growing at
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2 for 1 Gardens: out of the ordinary
Plan a makeover with Nick Bailey
Light up spring with bulbs in pots
Expert’s choice: collarette dahlias
Arit listens to nature’s harmonies
Explore the gardens of Madrid
Best buys: leaf and lawn rakes
10 crops to sow and plant now
Deep dive: trees for the future
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Sara Ward’s veg plot tasks
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Gardeners’ Question Time
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Tales from Titchmarsh
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Monty shows you how to turn autumn’s bounty into leafmould
Your 18-page October planner
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Arit tunes into birdsong and other relaxing garden sounds
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Choose the best garlic varieties for success
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Around the garden
Adam’s essentials
Test your skills
Back to basics
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Pruning
Flowers
Wildlife
We love October
We love October
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JAGGED THRILL
YOU MAY SPOT… Firecrest, Regulus ignicapillus
PLANT UP A POT… DUSKY SHADES
PLANT UP A POT… DUSKY SHADES
BEAUTY, BEWARE
LATE SEASON WARMER
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If trees could talk
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Falling for leafmould
Falling for leafmould
Monty’s top tips for leafmould
NO-FEAR GARDENING
NO-FEAR GARDENING
MAINTAINING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
COMPOSTING
PLANTS FOR NEXT YEAR
COMPOSTING
Frances focuses on tidying your garden for winter and maintenance tasks
The 5 senses of gardening… SOUND
The 5 senses of gardening… SOUND
Easy on the ears
In the new year, Arit continues to revel in the senses by exploring scent
Starting over
Starting over
The right tools for the job
Nick explains how to add the structural elements that will form the base of a beautiful garden
Root of the matter
NEXT MONTH...
WHAT TO DO N W
Plant Iris reticulata in pots
Split pulmonarias
Oil tool handles
Check containers regularly
Sow euonymus
Use grass clippings carefully
Mulch borders
DON’T FORGET
TOP TIP
Plant spring bulbs in lnadwns
Li t dahlias for winter protection
Raise your mowing height
DON’T FORGET
Waste not, want hot!
Explore the range
Plant daffodils in borders
Look out for powdery mildew
Sow sweet peas
Tidy peonies
Create an autumn showpiece container
Plant winter pansies
DON’T FORGET
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Reduce the height of roses
Take out any dead rose stems
Remove some old stems
Cut back hornbeam hedges
Reinvigorate blackcurrants
Keep goldenrod under control
DON’T FORGET
Grow a moth orchid indoors
Plant cyclamen corms now
Improve drainage around succulents
Move pelargoniums indoors
DON’T FORGET
Plant up a mixed container
MINUTES TO SPARE
Plant fruiting trees for birds
MINUTES TO SPARE
Make a hedgehog highway
Leave windfall apples
Take down your bee hotel now
DON’T FORGET
Collect seeds from hardy perennials
Transform your conservatory in just one day
DON’T FORGET
Monitor salad seedlings
Move succulents undercover
Check heaters
Check cuttings
Check the pH level of your soil
Repair lawn edges and bare patches
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Clear comfrey
Store ripe pumpkins and winter squashes
MINUTES TO SPARE
Dig up sweetcorn
Sow broad beans
Top dress blueberries
Clear soil of weeds and cover
DON’T FORGET
Look out for spoiled onions
Gather last tomatoes
Li t celeriac
Plant garlic for crops next summer
Next month!
For the future
Rooted in resilience
Keeping trees safe
Spring Dutch waterways cruise
Madeira’s flowers
SPRING TRIPS WITH ADAM FROST
Colour burst containers
Colour burst containers
Eye candy
Think zinc
How to create a spring bulb container
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Garden globetrotting: Madrid
Garden globetrotting: Madrid
Inspired by Madrid
Madrid, Salamanca and Toledo
Classical Spain
SOUTHERN SPAIN AND ITS INLAND CITIES
Double act
Double act
Expert growing tips: dark-leaved dahlias
Looking after tender exotics
No Name’s specialities
Leaf and lawn rakes
Leaf and lawn rakes explained
Leaf and lawn rakes explained
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Success with GARLIC
So tneck v hardneck
The results ‘Cledor’
‘Kingsland Wight’
‘Maddock Wight’
‘Mersley Wight’
‘Carcassonne Wight’
‘Rose Wight’
‘Solent Wight’
‘Extra Early Wight’
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Conclusions
How to grow garlic
Growing THE GOOD LIFE
Jobs
Seasonal magic at Gravetye Manor
YOUR DAY INCLUDES
Q Could planting bamboos give me more privacy in this shady spot?
Gardeners’ Question Time
Q Why did we lose most of our apples?
TEAM ANSWER
QWhy did my 16-year-old olive tree su er early leaf fall?
Q Can you advise the best way to store my pumpkin harvest, please?
Q Do grass seeds go in the compost?
Q What’s the key to growing acers in containers?
Q How can I move my rose-crowded peony? Sue Henderson, Surrey
Q Are my patterned cotinus leaves unusual?
Q How can I prune my huge old hebe?
Q Why doesn’t my ‘Mint Chocolate’ hebe flower?
Q What’s wrong with my cherry tree?
Q How can we grow house plants with underfloor heating?
Q Can my single hazel tree self-pollinate?
HOT TOPIC
Q Will my bulb-lasagne pot flower next year?
Q What has happened to my carrots?
Q How can I stop lawn mushrooms, which my dog is allergic to?
Q Why has our ‘Susan Williams-Ellis’ rose bloomed like this?
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Hidden harvest
In the woods
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