BBC Gardeners' World Magazine - 27 Nov 2025
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Welcome to December
The home of gardening expertise you can trust
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Garden globetrotting: mountains,
meadows and easy alpines
Highlights of this year’s campaign
to Make a Metre Matter
Full Monty: transforming
Longmeadow’s hazel coppice
Root of the matter: why winter is the best time for a redesign
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Expert’s choice:
variegated hollies
Discover Monty’s
festive traditions
How to watch wildlife in winter
Crossword and festive puzzles
Veg plot tasks from Sara Ward
10 crops to sow and plant now
Alan on making fresh starts
Gardeners’ Question Time
Tales from Titchmarsh
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Around the garden
Adam’s essentials
Back to basics
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Pruning
Flowers
Wildlife
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Expert’s choice Variegated hollies
Expert’s choice Variegated hollies
Variegated hollies
Deck the hall
Northern star
Winter wanders
Snow much to see
Seasonal spectacle
Enchanted woodland
Christmas at Longmeadow
Christmas at Longmeadow
The Perfect Christmas Gift for All Gardeners
Starting over
Starting over
Planting trees
Your design – going forward
Get set for CHANGE
Get set for CHANGE
Alan’s gardening year
Alan’s top winter jobs
Root of the matter
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WHAT TO DO N W
Around the garden
Adam’s essentials
Back to basics
House plants
Greenhouse
Fruit & veg
Wildlife
Pruning
Flowers
Avoid stepping on frosted lawns
Clear leaves from paths
Look out for damaged stems
TOP TIP
Showcase flowers with mulch
Remove soft and rotting bulbs
Add rocks to alpine plants
DON’T FORGET
Bring scented blooms indoors
Plant hellebores in containers
Clear plants of fallen leaves
Make sure seeds in old packets are still viable
Protect camellias from frost
Keep planting spring bulbs
DON’T FORGET
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Shorten buddleia stems
Cut weak stems from sambucus
Prune water shoots on apples
Trim off diseased rose leaves
Remove crossing tree branches
Pollard catalpa
DON’T FORGET
Give the veg plot a year-end tidy
4 WAYS TO tidy up your veg patch
Top up your urn plant’s water tank
Care for poinsettias
Keep cacti dry
Check indoor temperatures
DON’T FORGET
Leave ivy berries for birds
Make a sparrow terrace
Sow some sweet peas
DON’T FORGET
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Take root cuttings
Pick young salad leaves
Plant potted crocuses
Clean glazing
DON’T FORGET
Plant up a colour pop container
STEP BY STEP Planting up a colour pop container
Start lifting parsnips
STEP BY STEP Plant rhubarb
Make a veg-plot compost trench
30 MINUTES TO SPARE
Protect bay trees from low temperatures and wind
Plant potted blackberries
Enjoy rosemary
DON’T FORGET
Uncover the beautiful gardens of Norfolk
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Gardens of the Year 2025
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Garden globetrotting: The Dolomites
Garden globetrotting: The Dolomites
Inspired by the Dolomites
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Winter wildlife watching
Winter wildlife watching
Up close: inside and outside
Indoor adventures
What to see in winter
Discover the secret lives of insects
From binoculars to field guides, here’s a selection of useful kit to bring you closer to nature without disturbing it Get set for wildlife watching
Snowy discoveries
Growing THE GOOD LIFE
DECEMBER Jobs
Leek tarte tatin
December Growing guide
Q Which plants are good for a small table by a window and the floor next to it?
Gardeners’ Question Time
Q What harmed my peppers?
QWhy did my pears look good on the tree but wept when cut?
Q Can I trim my cordyline – now 8ft tall – or will it look ugly?
Q How should I prune my dessert apple tree?
Q Will a hotbin kill the weed seeds in my compost?
Q What are the white, tissue-like patches on my hellebore leaves?
Q What do I do with these monkey puzzle babies?
Q Can I use homemade compost for potting outdoor plants?
Q Does a lantana need a greenhouse in winter?
Q At 40 years old, how can I get into horticulture professionally?
Q What happened to my carrots this year?
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