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Create a spring sensation with our timely advice on the buds, bulbs and blossom that will give your garden a colourful new look. Plus – ideas for creating privacy, how to grow perfect patio tomatoes, gardening with hungry wildlife and three gorgeous reader gardens!
IN THIS ISSUE
Celebrate dancing daffodils Capture the wild, countryside look in your garden by encouraging narcissi to colonise the lawn
Be inspired by… a shady path, tags & labels, plants in flower now, trends for 2019, a houseplant quiz and diary dates for March
Create a spring sensation! Bulbs, buds and blossom bring fresh energy into the spring garden. Val Bourne reveals her favourites for colour
Grow sunshine on a stem Daffodils are harbingers of spring, raising the spirits after the gloom of winter. Here’s our top 10
Choose little blue beauties Scilla, chionodoxa, muscari and Iris reticulata bring a flash of vivid colour to pots and borders
What to do this month Plant summer bulbs, start an alpine trough and tidy up perennials
Prune now for colourful stems Encourage bright new growth with your secateurs!
“It’s inspirational on a human scale” The Tudor manor house at East Lambrook is surrounded by cottage-style planting ideas
“Bulbs are the secret to spring colour” Rare and unusual bulbs fill the borders of this country idyll
“The garden looks amazing in spring” Colour-themed borders and a host of lakeside flowers bring this garden to life in March
Visit Caerhays This picturesque Cornish coastal garden is full of exciting plants for spring colour
Garden in harmony with our furry friends Don’t let deer, badgers or bunnies put you off gardening! Here’s how to coexist happily
Grow fresh, sweet tomatoes These juicy fruits are the perfect patio crop. Here’s how to get bumper harvests every time
Ask Garden Answers Our experts answer your gardening queries
Design solutions Make a garden more private with small trees, large shrubs and naturalised bulbs
Buyers’ guide to sowing kits We nominate five essentials that will help boost germination rates
Puzzles and prizes Win a Burgon & Ball sowing kit and plants from Hayloft Plants in our competitions
Garden view Bedding can be both theatrical and exuberant, says our columnist Kendra Wilson
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