Horticulture Magazine - July - August 2024

In this issue

A BIG ROLE FOR SMALL GRASSES
The unexpected benefits of small native grasses.
BY SHANNON CURREY

CHANGES & CHOICES
How plant experts are responding to our shifting climate and weather extremes.
BY ERICA BROWNE-GRIVAS

Succeed With Succession- The best crops to plant throughout summer, plus how to time them right

The best crops to plant throughout summer, plus how to time them right. Once a crop like spring turnips or snap peas has finished, I tidy up the bed, amend the soil with a thin layer of compost and replant. Depending on the new crop, I may be sowing seeds or transplanting seedlings.

5 mins

RICHARD HAWKE

Try and try again

10 mins

GOLDENSEAL

A woodland herb worth guarding

6 mins

A Big Role for SMALL GRASSES

The unexpected benefits of small native grasses

6 mins

AN ANNUAL AFFAIR

Combine a designer's best advice with the year's new varieties for a summer's worth of showstopping containers

4 mins

NEW MOUNDING ANNUALS

Also known as summer snapdragons, angelonias produce spikes of outward-facing flowers throughout the hottest, most humid time of the year.

7 mins

OUTSIDE OF THE BOX

AS BOXWOOD BLIGHT DAMAGES THIS STAPLE EVERGREEN, IT'S TIME TO LOOK AT WORTHY ALTERNATIVES

5 mins

Prized Perennials

GAPS IN THE GARDEN? TRY ONE OF THESE AWARD-WINNING PLANTS AS A SAFE-BET FIX

9 mins

Changes & CHOICES

HOW PLANT EXPERTS ARE RESPONDING TO OUR SHIFTING CLIMATE AND WEATHER EXTREMES

5 mins

A TOAST TO CORK

A trip to Portugal inspired Greg Coppa to peel back the botany of the cork oak

7 mins

Weeding Out Worry - Two books give perspectives on gardening's importance to mental health

Two books give perspectives on gardening's importance to mental health. One is written by a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who draws on decades of experience as a clinician and a gardener to discuss how gardening and interaction with the natural world benefit us. The other is written by a woman with mental illness whose efforts at becoming well brought her to outdoor activities, including gardening.

4 mins

THE GARDEN CENTER'S GRIP

SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENS when gardeners enter a garden center. We change. Suddenly, somehow, we're overcome with this vague yet powerful, transcendental feeling of liberation, and we become aware of money we probably have and hopefully won't otherwise need.

2 mins

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