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Meet the Contributors • “What I love most about spring is...”
Celebrate SPRING • Include a mixture of textured evergreens, early spring flowers and colour-crammed containers in your garden and spring can have all the fullness of summer
Be inspired by… • Plants, books, events & buys for the season ahead
Garden design trends
Wish list . • New plants in a soft palette of blushing pink, salmon and lilac
FRUITFUL HARVESTS IN ABUNDANCE
BOOSTING GARDENS IN LOCKDOWN
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Recognise these daffodils? • Can you name these delightful daffs that are brightening spring borders up and down the country! Answers on p14
What’s on…
TOWER OF LONDON Blooming celebration
30-minute makes • Brighten your Easter table with these cute mini egg vases - they’re so simple and cheap to make
Gardeners’ BOOKSHELF
Make your front garden fabulous • Naomi Slade shares ideas on how to transform the space outside your home and make it a treat for passers-by
GREAT IN POTS
Compose a theme with style & substance • Colourful plants and pots paint a picture
Up-front GREENING • Welcome wildlife into your local neighbourhood
WILDLIFE FRIENDLY
TOP TEN Perfect partners FOR TULIPS • Pair your tulips with some of these gorgeous plants to create spectacular spring scenes
Plant a breathtaking RHAPSODY IN BLUE • Smothered in azure pompons, ceanothus are darling late spring-flowering shrubs for a sunny spot. Sue Fisher picks some of her favourites
Our pick of the best
Caring for ceanothus
Spring • With the garden bursting into new life, it’s a great time to give plants in pots a boost, plant summer-flowering bulbs, prune honeysuckle and start a patio potato crop
PLANT EXCITING SUMMER BULBS • Boost borders later in the season with a rich diversity of spectacular flowers
EMERALD FIZZ • Heralding the fresh start of the season, a sea of daffodils, honesty and acid-green euphorbia complement sparkling white birch trunks
MAKE THE DISPLAY LAST
I wanted a blaze of light in the garden
• With a quirky mix of garden structures, secluded seating, curvy topiary and a mass of bulbs this Lancashire cottage garden has a new vibrancy in spring. Owner Claire Spendlove shows us around
IN THE GARDEN WITH…
IN THE GARDEN WITH…
There’s a procession of pink and white blossom
• Tulips aplenty now supplement the spring display of flowering shrubs and blossom at this Cotswold farmhouse. Owner Simon Gill tells us more
I love growing tulips en masse
• Sweeps of colourful tulips are planted in ribbons and swathes in this warm, dry garden in Essex. Owner Philippa Burrough treats us to a tour
IN THE GARDEN WITH…
It has a naturalistic feel and is largely left to do its own thing
• The Stream Garden at Rosemoor is a relaxed vision of lush foliage and bold-coloured flowers in spring. CuratorJonathan Webster explains
STREAM GARDEN • Lush planting, bold leaves and zingy hues create a naturalistic waterside planting scheme
Making mini-meadows • Creating a wildflower patch in a lawn is a hugely rewarding project for us and wildlife. Adrian Thomas reveals the positive results
Easy mini-meadow
SEED BOMBS
WILDLIFE GARDEN JOBS FOR SPRING
Fact file
Life on the VEG PATCH • Spring is a time of no-dig bed prep, sowing tomatoes and welcoming beneficial insects for Ade & Sophie Sellars - the self-styled Agents of Field
Growing TOMATOES • Early…