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June 2012

The Garden

June 2012 June 2012

June 2012

The Garden

June 2012 June 2012

June 2012

The Garden

June 2012 June 2012

June 2012

The Garden

June 2012 June 2012

June 2012

The Garden

June 2012 June 2012

June 2012

The Garden

June 2012 June 2012

Gardens

  • La vie en Rosa

    Jacky Hobbs meets Andre Eve, whose passion for roses is illustrated by his private garden in France

  • Framed by formality

    The hustle and bustle of London life can be forgotten in this tranquil garden in Twickenham, as Nigel Colborn finds

  • Living gardens: Part 3 Learning from nature

    In the Living Gardens series Part 3, Andrew Salisbury points out how similar rural and urban habtats are to the wildlife that lives in them

Plants

  • Suceed with... Lewisia

    Advised by Anita Drury, Phil Clayton looks at the best ways to grow these colourful alpine plants

  • Breezy Knees Nursery and Gardens

    Roy Lancaster breezes into this garden and nursery in the Vale of York that grows a wide range of perennial plants well suited to the site

  • It's chard to beet

    Rarely seen in supermarkets, chard and leaf beet are ornamental and easy to grow, says Liz Dobbs, and 11 were given the Award of Garden Merit in the 2011 RHS Trial

Advice

  • Garden practice - watering in drought

    Julie Hollobone investigates the best long-term and short-term watering strategies for a drought

  • RHS Advice

    This month’s topics include improving sweet peas performance, training hybrid berries, identifying ladybirds, and treating magnesium deficiency - together with reminders of jobs for May

  • Wildlife: green tiger beetle

    Andrew Halstead  looks at this agile hunter

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Regulars

  • Comment

    Letters to the Editor and columnists  Mary Keen on the importance of landscape, Lia Leendertz on optimising allotment space; and guest Nigel Slater on edible flowers

  • Plants of merit

    Geranium 'Orion', Rosmarinus officinalis 'Sissinghurst Blue' and Philadelphus 'Sybille'

  • RHS Life

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