August

The Garden

The Garden Cover

Gallery 2

August 2012

Gallery 3

August 2012

Gallery 4

August 2012

Gallery 5

August 2012

Gallery 6

August 2012

RHS Shows

• RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2012

  Highlights of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, including images from the Show Gardens and Great Pavilion

  Related links

  Read the full article (869kB pdf)

  

Gardens

• A garden of inspiring variety

  Owner Anne Godfrey decided to remove the lawn in her Hertfordshire garden. It was the best decision she has made, as Naomi Slade found
  

• Discover the valley's hidden colour

  Great wildlife-friendly plant combinations impress Sorcha Hitchcox at Hidden Valley Gardens in Cornwall

• Following nature's lead

  Jo Whittingham is won over by ever-changing, naturalistic plantings at Cambo Gardens, an RHS Partner Garden in Fife

Plants

• Soaking up the sun

  Martin Hughes-Jones picks his favourite selections of heleniums, some of the best perennials for adding late colour to borders

  Related links

  Read the full article (724kB pdf)

  

• Damsons for the finest jam

  Easy-to-grow damsons and bullaces, by Gerry Edwards

• From dusk 'til dawn

  Evening primroses deserve a place in more gardens, says Graham Rice

• Lower Kenneggy Nurseries

  Roy Lancaster visits a Cornish nursery specialising in exotic and maritime plants

  Related links

  Read the full article (793kB pdf)

  

• Suceed with...Yucca whipplei

  With the help of plantsman Tim Ingram, Phil Clayton learns about a dramatic yucca

Advice

• Garden practice: Tender cuttings

  Nick Morgan explains how to save tender perennials such as Fuchsia and Verbena for the following year- can you overwinter your plants or should you take cuttings now?

  Related links

  Read the full article (464kB pdf)

  

• Water adds a new garden dimension

  In the fifth part of the Living Gardens series, Jeremy Biggs looks at what lives in freshwater ponds

• RHS Advice

  Topics this month include how to grow rhubarb, soil-pest biocontrols, propagating scented-leaf pelargoniums, controlling splitting in root crops and jobs for August

• Wildlife: Puss moth

  Andrew Halstead describes a large species of moth, with spectacular caterpillars, that is seldom seen by day