Garden Answers

Garden Answers is a vibrant and inspiring gardening magazine filled with ingenious design ideas and exciting plant combinations guaranteed to make your garden beautiful.

Welcome

Meet the Contributors • “This month in the garden I’ll be…”

SUMPTUOUS PERENNIALS • Colourful, frothy spires set the stage for this magnificent summer border packed with dozens of impossibly pretty perennials

Be inspired by… • Plants, books, events & buys for the month

NEWS

Wish list • Rambunctious rhododendrons to cheer every corner of the garden

From bare earth TO SECRET EDEN • Don’t despair at the barren square of garden in your new-build home – Andrew Jackson shows you how to view it as a blank canvas ripe for a spectacular makeover!

The gentle ROSE REVOLUTION • Nowadays we have a more relaxed approach to caring for these classic blooms, says Val Bourne, with more thought for wildlife

Season-binding ERYSIMUM • The perfect segue from spring into summer, wallflowers offer colourful blooms in a rich array of colours, says Sue Fisher

May • Now is when spring seems to turn to summer and as the garden blossoms, some gentle coaxing will keep it looking at its best

Make your garden A PLACE TO LIVE IN • A space for outdoor living is top of many of our garden wishlists and these ideas will help bring the inside out!

Checking out the WILD SIDE OF CHELSEA • Adrian Thomas explores this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden designs in search of wildlife

Levelling up! • This sloping garden has reached new heights in every sense

Big, bold and beautiful • Taking inspiration from Romanian roots and a legendary Dutch designer, this garden is a plant lover’s paradise

Shining a light • Head gardener John Ridgley is overseeing a planting restoration project in the Garden in the Wood at the National Trust’s Knightshayes Court, near Tiverton in Devon

Ready… Steady… Grow • Garden Answers brings monthly inspiration with colourful ideas, expert tips and creative planting advice. Subscribe this spring and we’ll help you make the most of your garden

Welcome to my lovely plot • RHS Chelsea Flower Shower provides Olga Grieves with the inspiration to create floral heaven at her allotment

FIRST LIGHT AND A CUP OF MAY • Fiona is juggling seedlings, flowers and fledgling veg in her small container garden in Lincolnshire

Ask the Experts • Our experts will help you get the best from your garden

Q&A • Which perennials grow in shade? Can I stop duckweed in my pond? Read on…

HOW TO GET GREENER… ROCKERIES • Everything about your rockery can be sustainable: you just need to know where to look

Make your space a HOME SWEET HOME • Geoff Hodge looks at simple features to provide shelter for various creatures and help encourage them to stay in your garden

Over to you!

Garden Answers

Brilliant border perennials for free • Get your gardening gloves on 24 free plug plants – you just pay postage

Beautiful buddleja stars • New breeding has produced the smallest butterfly bush ever

Win these gardening goodies • Enter this month’s crossword for a chance to win one of 12 begonia ‘Apricot Shades Improved’ worth £14.99 each. Entry form overleaf

Next month in Garden answers

Catching myself swooning • Will Belgian geometric boundaries and clipped hedges inspire a minimalist makeover of Dan’s gardening style?