Amateur Gardening - 28 Jun 2025
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ADAM FROST INTERVIEW
9 OF THE BEST PRAIRIE PLANTS
A warm welcome
Toby explains how ‘old’ soil and modern innovation keeps his favourite ancient variety of plant, the tree fern, happy
Ruth rustles up lots of joyful job ideas for the fortnight ahead
Mike celebrates the garden with pride and petals
Rosie reveals more money-saving project ideas
Adam Frost tells Sue Bradley how he’s been getting to know his new garden
What to do now to boost autumn fruit harvests - Bob Flowerdew
Kim Stoddart - 12 of the easiest selfseeding plants
Natural pest control tips for dahlias - Kim O’Brien
9 low-maintenance prairie plants - Rhiannon Williams
How to make a small-space herb planter - Adam Kirtland
How to plan a potager paradise - Andrew Oldham
The natural forager’s garden
- Anne Swithinbank
5 of the most striking colour combinations - Liz Zorab
7 of the best water gardens - Great British Gardens
5 compact, colourful gems
- Michael Perry
How to grow tree ferns
- Toby Buckland
Gardening tea break - Graham Clarke
More thrifty inspiration - Rosie Irving
Chris Collins - Small space I Big ideas
A rainbow of colour - Mike Palmer
Ask John Negus - your questions
Lucy Chamberlain - fruit and veg
Seed sowing advice, and events
Ruth Hayes - jobs and ideas
AG gardening gift guide
Your news fortnight
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Prestigious exhibition returns to Beaulieu
The past, present and future of our food
Celebrating learning at the Kent Show
Charities join forces to celebrate swifts
New reserve will bring benefits to kent
Garden is small but perfect, say judges
Permanent home for Bridgerton garden
Revelling in the sweet delights of early summer
Four quick jobs to keep the garden smiling
Potting up seedlings and cuttings
Rescuing a ‘damsel’ in distress
Why we all love to grow tomatoes
How to grow the loveliest lettuce, quicker broccoli, and when to thin out fruits
Try alternative broccolis
Step by step Do I need to thin out fruits?
Enjoy self-seeding edibles
Why not try...? Chinese violet cress
3 of the best brassicas
Chris’s Q&As
12 of the easiest self-seeding plants
4 fantastic self-seeding blooms
8 sensational self-seeding edibles
I grow lots of extra edibles each year to plant out at the community climate change garden I manage near to me in Wales, so self-seeding plants are a real ally. Here are some of my favourites which I love passing onto o
A walk on the wild side with Adam Frost
A walk on the wild side with Adam Frost
Adam’s passion for gardening shines through
Working with wildlife, different radish varieties and propagation tips
Marvellous marjoram
A rainbow of petals
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Orange
Violet
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5 of the most striking colour combinations A lime-green variety of continus which has tiny green flowers in summer
Cotinus coggygria Golden Spirit (‘Ancot’)
5 of the most striking colour combinations A lime-green variety of continus which has tiny green flowers in summer
Cotinus coggygria Golden Spirit (‘Ancot’)
Super cool succulents and a space-saving fold-down seat J
How to make more aeoniums for free
Project ideas - how to make your own space-saving drop-down seat
Important safety advice to consider first
7 of the best water gardens
7 of the best water gardens
Once the domain of bison and endless skies, the iconic North American Prairie can now find an unlikely home in your UK garden, as evidenced by Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex. explains…
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How to grow tree ferns through the mists of time
To keep ‘Tony’ happy Toby uses a cafe culture-inspired mist unit
Toby explains how to help replicate the preferred habitat for tree ferns in home gardens
How to grow tree ferns successfully
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