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September 2012

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The Garden

September 2012

The Garden The Garden

The Garden

September 2012

The Garden The Garden

The Garden

September 2012

The Garden The Garden

The Garden

September 2012

The Garden The Garden

The Garden

September 2012

The Garden The Garden

RHS Shows

  • RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2012

    Some of the most innovative gardens and interesting details from this year's RHS Flower Show in the North West

Gardens

  • Organised into ascending order

    Visiting at the height of its display in autumn, Val Bourne enjoys a colour-themed garden on the slopes of the North Downs in Surrey

  • The air's buzzing with buddleias

    A National Plant Collection reveals the surprising diversity of Buddleja, by Chris Saunders

Plants

  • Topically tropical

    Martin Einchcomb profiles lantanas, well worth growing for their multi-hued flowers

  • Rooting for celeriac

    More people should grow this appealing, versatile vegetable, says Sarah Wain

  • The plant seekers

    A garden museum exhibition of RHS Lindley Library material reveals the exploits of early plant hunters. Lucy Waitt looks at some of the items on display

  • Gunnera great and small

    James Armitage admires a National Plant Collection of Gunnera species

  • Preserving the taste of home

    As expat allotment holders grow increasingly diverse crops, Caroline Beck sees how their seeds are being saved

  • Better the devil you know

    Roy Lancaster on Crocosmia 'Lucifer' and plantsman Alan Bloom who raised it

  • Succeed with...restios

    Phil Clayton learns more about these tall, feathery plants from expert Jeff Rowe

Advice

  • Gardeners and wildlife gardening

    In the final part of the Living Gardens series, Steve Head, Andrew Salisbury and Helen Bostock summarise ways to manage your garden to encourage more wildlife

  • Wildlife: parent bug

    Andrew Halstead describes a species of shield bug that, unusally, looks after its eggs and its young

  • RHS Advice

    Topics this month include late-season nectar plants, terms for fruit, growing lemon grass, sowing winter vegetables, dealing with powdery mildews and some key jobs for September

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Regulars

  • Comment

    Mary Keen on focal points, Lia Leendertz on school gardening, and James Armitage on changes in plant-naming

  • Plants of merit

    Pyrus communis ' Beurré Hardy',  Hydrangea aspera Villosa Group and Clematis rehderiana

  • RHS Life

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