
What’s in Amateur Gardening
22 September 2018
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Caring for tender plants
How to help plants that need winter protection
Which bulbs to lift and which to leave
Ruth Hayes considers what to do with corms and tubers
Sow early sweet peas/What’s On
Top tips to grow this week’s free seeds
How to relocate perennials
Ruth Hayes shows you how in six easy steps
Great garden ideas
Pick of the very best: ornamental grasses
Popular plants with multi-season interest
The seed people: Unwins
It all started 115 years ago with sweet peas
Top perennials for blazing borders
We reveal the best for colour and performance
Compact climbers for small spaces
Even the most modest plot can benefit from a climber
Get the look
We visit a ‘wrap-around’ garden in Lancashire
Gardening wisdom
Peter Seabrook
You don’t need a garden to be a gardener, says Peter
Val Bourne’s garden wildlife
Spiders are good friends to gardeners, as Val explains
Bob Flowerdew
It’s time to plan for next year’s fruit crop, declares Bob
Lucy Chamberlain’s fruit and veg
Make a wormery, plant up strawberries, harvest quince
RHS explains
How do gardens help cities? In more ways than you realise…
Ask John Negus
Failed roses, balm for bees, hosta collapse, mystery succulent
Anne’s masterclass
If you want success with sweet peas, follow Anne Switinbank’s tips
How to grow roses
Anne Swithinbank shows you how to get the best out of standard roses
A gardener’s miscellany
Japan is the subject of this week’s trivia, puzzles and prizes
Toby Buckland
Bees are wonderful – until you get stung, says Toby
News and product tests
Latest news
Threat to lawns, plus Mr Fothergill’s latest seed releases
Tried and tested: harvesting knives
Tim Rumball tests six examples to find the best
Cover photograph: Cosmos atrosanguineus (pic: Alamy)