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Amateur Gardening, Britain’s best–read weekly gardening magazine

NEARLY 200,000 people read Amateur Gardening magazine every week. This popular gardening publication is one of the most influential in its field, reporting the big news stories, challenging conventional thinking, and frequently setting the agenda in the gardening world – from lobbying the government to save allotments (AG Allotments 2000 Campaign) to flagging up the disgraceful overcrowding at the Chelsea flower show, and winning an extra day for visitors.

But it’s also because we explain practical gardening techniques in easy to follow language with clear pictures to illustrate the subjects.

Being a weekly publication we can deal with the important gardening topics just when you need to know about them, from raising flowering plants from seed to nurturing shrubs and trees, solving pest and disease problems and growing healthy crops of fruit and vegetables. And we give away lots of free seeds with the magazine every year.

Inspire

We aim to inspire through lavishly illustrated features on plant families and planting combinations, readers’ gardens and the latest sensible ideas on cultivation and presentation.

Amateur Gardening is written by enthusiasts and experts. Our staff garden both for a living and for fun, and our expert contributors are some of the wisest in the business. Toby Buckland, Peter Seabrook, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank write for the magazine every week.

Regular readers really get to know the staff of Amateur Gardening magazine. We promote a friendly and personal writing style that brings you into our gardens and into our gardening world. And you even get the chance to chat to members of staff who answer readers’ gardening queries for an hour every weekday lunchtime.

Add to that sensational reader offers, the chance to win gardening goodies and a subscription offer that makes our colourful magazine an incredibly attractive package, and you’ll begin to see why Amateur Gardening is the first choice for so many keen gardeners – and has been since 1884.

Staff biogs:

Name: Tim Rumball

Job: Editor

Years on the magazine: 12

Horticultural training: None – I’m a journalist by trade and a gardener by inclination. I’ve been gardening for over 30 years

Special interests: Growing vegetables, growing trees, growing anything from seed, growing anything anyone tells me I can’t…

Name: Sally Charrett

Job: Deputy editor / features editor

Years on the magazine: 1

Horticultural Training: BSc (Hons) Horticulture at Duchy and Writtle colleges.

I was a late bloomer into gardening and haven’t looked back since – the passion for learning about plants just keeps growing too (excuse the puns!). I cut my journalism teeth at The Garden (RHS journal), prior to working at AG.

Special interests: I really do enjoy all types of plants, including growing veggies and herbs to add to my cooking. I do have a particular fondness for hydrangeas for some reason. Love garden design and garden history.

Name: Marc Rosenberg

Job: News editor

Years on the magazine: 10

Horticultural training: Marc has a degree in horticulture, has worked in the garden centre trade and has been growing flowers and vegetables since he was a teenager.

Special interests: Growing exotic and tropical-looking plants – tree ferns, cannas, passion flowers, palms, agapanthus, coleus and dahlias, to name a few. Plus, growing as many vegetable and salad crops as possible in containers in a small town garden!