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 October 2012: Vol 137 Part 10

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Gardens

  • Cultivating a sense of place

    The subtle blending of Dyffryn Fernant garden with the surrounding Welsh countryside impresses Noel Kingsbury

Plants

  • A feast of French beans

    Pippa Rosen shares her enthusiasm for French beans with Daniela Jankowska, including how to dry and store them

  • Chris Pattison's nursery

    Roy Lancaster last visited this Gloucestershire nursery more than 10 years ago. He found its range of woody plants just as tempting today

  • Complements of the season

    Nigel Slater's favourite home-grown flavours

  • Finding berried treasure

    With their impressive autumn foliage and vibrant berries, says David Jewell, more Cotoneaster should be grown in gardens

  • Succeed with... Sternbergia lutea

    As perennials fade, some autumn bulbs stir into life. Phil Clayton learns from Alan Street about these appealing plants

  • The late late show

    Martin Hughes-Jones on dynamic autumnal combinations with grasses that can last well into winter

  • Warm to the colours of ice

    Border sedums offer variety in foliage and flowers, and thrive well on neglect, as Christopher Whitehouse describes

Advice

  • RHS Advice

    Topics this month include establishing and supporting broad-leaved evergreen hedges, harvesting fruit, symptoms and controls of apple scab
    and bitter pit, and reminders of jobs to do in October

  • Wildlife: Rabbit

    In his monthly series on garden fauna, Andrew Halstead looks at wild rabbits

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Regulars

  • Comment

    Letters: Nigel Colborn on autumn planting and Sir Roy Strong on why gardens need rejuvenation

  • Book reviews

    Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs, Sweet Peas for Summer
    and The Art of Creative Pruning

  • News

    The RHS autumn planting campaign, an update on the 'alien slug plague' and a new alpine house in Edinburgh

  • Plants of merit

    Nerine bowdenii, Pyracantha ‘Teton’ and Calamagrostis brachytricha