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Gallery 7

The Garden

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RHS Shows

  • RHS Flower Show Chelsea 2012

    Highlights of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including images from the Show Gardens and Great Pavilion

Gardens

  • A creative collaboration

    Andrew Lawson meets Sibylle Kreutzberger who continues to develop the private Cotwolds garden she and the late Pamela Schwerdt created after retiring from Sissinghurst

  • Lost and found

    Once a derelict site, where the house was demolished in 1951, Easton Walled Gardens in Lincolnshire has been lovingly and well restored. Bunny Guinness pays a visit to an intriguing RHS Partner Garden

  • Growing together

    Tim Richardson summarises the positive impacts that gardening collectively can have on neighbourhoods, as evidenced by a recent RHS report: Britain in Bloom: Transforming Local Communities

Plants

  • Marvellous marguerites

    Following last year’s RHS Trial, Roy Cheek chooses the best selections of this large, long-flowering daisy ideal for pots

  • Hostas add a magic touch

    Jon Ardle describeds how to make the best use of the elegant foliage plants in the garden

  • Perfect to pass from Hans to hand

    Roy Lancaster on Hans Simon, plant collector and breeder who introduced
    Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’

  • Succeed with...Arisaema

    These perennials are excellent choices for a shady garden spot. Phil Clayton talks to Arisaema expert Terry Hunt

Advice

  • Garden practice: Controlling glasshouse pests

    Which pests are most often encountered in glasshouses, and how
    to deal with them? Andrew Halstead goes through the symptoms and controls

  • Plants and soils

    In the fourth part of the Living Gardens series, Steve Head looks at the importance of plants and soils as foundations of garden ecosystems

  • RHS Advice

    Topics this month include problems with potatoes and tomatoes, deadheading flowers, growing wasabi, avoiding leaf scorch, what to do about earwigs, choosing bulbs for autumn colour, and jobs for July.

  • Wildlife: Tawny owl

    Andrew Halstead describes a species of owl found on mainland Britain in wooded areas, and sometimes in parks and suburbs

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Regulars

  • Comment

    Matthew Biggs learns what coffee can do to slugs; Lia Leendertz urges us to love our local parks; Nigel Colborn berates the attitudes that some ecologists have of gardening

  • Plants of merit

     This month’s Award of Garden Merit choices: Fuchsia ‘ alia’, Catananche caerulea ‘Major’ and Magnolia grandifola ‘Exmouth’

  • RHS Life

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