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April 2012

The Garden

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April 2012

The Garden

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April 2012

The Garden

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April 2012

The Garden

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April 2012

The Garden

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March 2012

The Garden

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Gardens

  • Ultra-colour at Ulting Wick

    Successful combinations of tulips make an impressive impact in this Essex garden, as Annie Getti finds

  • Living gardens: Part 1 Gardens in context

    In the first of a new series, Steve Head explores the importance of gardens in supporting many species of wildlife

Plants

Advice

  • Strawberries for all

    With new cultivars and techniques, commercial soft-fruit growers are able to harvest strawberries until later in the year. John Handford reveals how home-gardeners can do the same

  • Garden practice - dividing plants

    David Hide explains why and how to divide herbaceous perennials for plant health and improved flowering

  • RHS Advice

    This month’s topics include dealing with yellow patches in lawns, bulking-up minituber potatoes, pruning magnolias and controlling blossom wilt, together with timely reminders of jobs for April

  • Wildlife: bee-fly

    Innocuous adult but parasitic as a larva: Andrew Halstead examines dark-edged bee-fly, the only one of nine British bee-fly species likely to be seen in gardens

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Regulars

  • Comment

    Letters to the Editor and columnists Lia Leendertz and guest authors Alan Titchmarsh, and Matthew Biggs.

  • Plants of merit

    Saxifraga ‘Tumbling Waters’, Tulipa ‘Queen of Sheba’ and Dicentra formosa ‘Bacchanal’

  • RHS Life

    News from around the Society, RHS Gardens, RHS Partner Gardens
    and events near you