The Garden magazine back issues

Revisit the 2016 highlights of The Garden and immerse yourself in the world of gardening with a look back at horticultural developments, fascinating gardens, news, trends and ideas from our shows, findings from plant trials, as well as a celebration of all things RHS

January 2016

  • Well-bred hellebores – Roy Lancaster visits Twelve Nunns in Lincolnshire, a family-run mail-order nursery best known for its Harvington hellebores
  • Apple and pear pruning made easy – Lenka Cooke details how apples and pears benefit from regular winter pruning to help to maintain a good yearly harvest
  • Lasting legacy – Julie Hollobone visits the influential Alhambra in Spain, considered to be the best-preserved Islamic gardens in Europe

February 2016

  • Exciting new early Iris – Phil Clayton learns how Canadian Iris hybridiser Alan McMurtrie is creating new cultivars of this lovely early-flowering plant
  • Californian style & texture – Nan Sterman discovers the year-round appeal of a drought-tolerant garden near San Diego
  • Dealing with perennial weeds – perennial weeds can often dominate a garden. Nicola Oakey describes cultural and chemical methods of removal

March 2016

  • Island dawn – renowned for its collections of tender plants, Tresco Abbey Garden is a magical place. Phil Clayton visits the offshore frost-free paradise
  • ‘Capability’ Brown 300 years on – John Phibbs explores the styles of the great landscape gardener and how his work changed the way we look at the English countryside
  • Tasty crops from further afield – Mark Diacono profiles a range of food crops from around the world that have added variety to our diets

April 2016

  • Marking 150 years of the RHS magazine – The Garden commemorates a century and a half of communicating developments from within the RHS and horticulture at large
  • A tradition to savour – the eccentric blooms of English florists’ tulips owe their beautiful patterning to a virus. Phil Clayton meets grower Timothy Clark
  • RHS sunflower trial – sunflowers come in a galaxy of colours and sizes. Graham Rice seeks the sun and AGM winners among last year’s RHS Plant Trial

May 2016

  • Purple passions – popular summer flowers, an RHS Plant Trial of alliums shows the number available to gardeners is increasing explains Christine Skelmersdale
  • The majesty of Mount Stewart – in his Great Garden Visits series, Phil Clayton discovers the gardens of Mount Stewart, outside Belfast in Northern Ireland
  • From little acorns – Annie Gatti reveals how making a garden has helped schoolchilden reconnect with the natural world

June 2016

  • Roses for today – Julie Hollobone invited seven experts to describe their favourite climbing and rambling roses for smaller gardens
  • Growing vegetables in containers – Toby Buckland reveals the best crops to grow in containers, regardless of how little space you have
  • Nurturing family roots – Stephanie Donaldson meets the designer and owner of the walled garden at Serge Hill, Hertfordshire, which has a charming mix of perennials, shrubs and climbers

July 2016

  • A vintage year – a selection of medal winners, planting combinations and ideas to take home from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016
  • Delicious artichokes – Sue Stickland on growing and enjoying cardoons and a range of different artichokes
  • Tromsø treasures – Helen Harrison travels into the Arctic Circle and marvels at the most northerly botanic garden in the world

August 2016

  • The tastiest blackberries and hybrid berries – Jim Arbury describes the best cultivated selections of blackberries to grow from a recent RHS Plant Trial
  • Successful hedge trimming – Alastair Gunn advises how to cut evergreen, deciduous and flowering hedges to keep them looking their best
  • Flowers for cutting – Louise Curley celebrates the joy of growing a summer supply of flowers and foliage – from the garden or allotment – for indoor arrangements

 

September 2016

  • Wicklow work of art – Jane Powers describes a contemporary and plant-filled country garden, influenced by the surrounding rural landscape, in the Republic of Ireland
  • Sowing sweet peas for next year’s display – Roger Parsons profiles these award-winning perfumed blooms that can be grown in a rainbow of colours
  • Dyson’s Nurseries – Roy Lancaster visits a Kent nursery, based at RHS Partner Garden Great Comp that specialises in salvias

October 2016

  • Inclined to make the finest views – Stephen Anderton explores Perrycroft, a hillside garden in Herefordshire by Arts & Crafts architect CFA Voysey
  • Saffron: Growing autumn’s treasured spice – saffron is made from the stigmas of Crocus sativus. Sally Francis explains how to get growing for gold
  • Plants to pollard for dramatic summer foliage – Tocher describes how an ancient pruning technique, pollarding can have decorative and practical benefits

November 2016

  • Weird and wonderful fungi – Jon Ardle takes a closer look at native fungi, many of which make rare above-ground appearances in autumn
  • Autumn flames – trees in fiery colours, carpets of dazzling cyclamen and vibrant Glasshouse displays add to Wisley’s autumn glory, says Emma Allen
  • 14 native flowers with garden appeal – Graham Rice lists some of his favourite cultivated selections of UK wildflowers that offer natural grace, wildlife value and make fine garden plants

December 2016

  • Frosted fantasy – like countless generations before her, Caroline Beck has fallen in love with the timeless serenity of the late-17th-century topiary at Levens Hall
  • Inspiring sculpture for the garden – Andrew Wilson leads an armchair tour of sculptures in different materials that create drama and focal points in their settings
  • Wildlife – owls: silent pest controllers – Jean Vernon admires barn owls, their haunting shrieks, and their role in controlling garden pests

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