CATEGORIES

Easy winter propagation

Root cuttings are easy and reliable, says Ruth

Best recipes for gorgeous Christmas containers

Here’s how you can plant up colourful festive pots to brighten the garden or give away as special Yuletide presents to family and friends, as Hazel Sillver explains

Twelve shrubs for twelve months

If you want colour in your garden throughout the year, these are the shrubs to plant, says Walter F. Wood, as he lists 12 shrubs that perform for 12 months of the year

Beautiful hellebores

Undemanding, winter-hardy, with strikingly beautiful flowers, hellebores are a garden must-have that provide early colour in the garden,says Louise Curley

Stop greenhouse mould

Q Determined not to heat our greenhouse this winter, we spent a long time insulating the inside before putting back tender plants and cuttings. How can we get rid of the fuzzy mould infecting some plants and what will happen if we have a very cold winter? Geoffrey Mills, Louth, Lincolnshire

A long-lasting Christmas tree

The right care helps them survive the season, says Ruth

Houseplant health in winter

Dry, centrally heated rooms can cause problems, says Ruth

Caring for favourite plants

Humidity and indirect light help keep houseplants healthy

Planting a Japanese maple

There’s an Acer palmatum for every garden, says Ruth

Focus on... Blueberries

Lush berry harvests guaranteed with Lucy

Read all about it!

If you can’t get out in the garden, the next best thing is reading about it, as Bob reveals his selection of books

A winter's tale

Val explains why winter is a magical time in the garden

Winter care of hydrangeas

Potted plants are at the greatest risk, says Ruth

We love December

The last month of the year: another four seasons over and they have been a bit of a rollercoaster (not just horticulturally).

2 for 1 entry City escapes

There's still much to see with the 2 for 1 Entry Card as autumn begins to set in this month we discover days out just a stone’s throw from major city centres

Super Salvias!

Drought-tolerant, long-flowering and mostly pest-resistant, salvias are invaluable summer plants, says Graham Clarke, as he reveals his favourite varieties

Crab apples

With foliage, flowers and fruit in a range of colours, there's a crab apple to suit everyone

Harvesting and storing apples

Steve and Val explain the techniques that will enable you to store the most fruit

Keeping perennials healthy

Ruth sorts out her border mainstays before the winter

Ringing the changes

Climate change is affecting flowers and veg, says Val

Vertical beauty

It's time to consider adding climbing roses to the garden, letting them cover your walls, fences, arches and pergolas with colour and scent, says Anne Swithinbank

Clearing the garden for winter

Now is the time to plan for winter and beyond, says Ruth

TWO'S COMPANY

Finding themselves on adjacent plots and with lots in common, Nathan and Daniel decided to join forces and so nathanielsallotment was born

GROWING ORGANIC VEG ALL YEAR ROUND

Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic, explains how you can have tasty veg to harvest every month of the year

MAKING CHRISTMAS WREATHS

It has long been a tradition to hang wreaths on doors at Christmas and you can also add a few edible highlights which you may have grown on your plot

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

Last year we officially launched a competition to find 12 readers and their plots that would feature in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we feature another of our talented winners

Don’t be a dendrophobe!

Dendrophobia is a strange disease that induces its sufferers to cut down beautiful trees in their gardens, but don’t succumb to it, says Allen Paterson

Blazing a trail

If you have to light a bonfire, make it a clean one, says Bob, and take precautions to keep everyone safe…

A hall, a walled garden and heritage apples

Martin Fish visits a walled garden in Lancashire to find a gardening team committed to an environmentally friendly approach to growing

WHAT A YEAR!

This month Stephanie Hafferty reflects on a year of hard work and takes satisfaction from what she has been able to achieve in a relatively short space of time