It’s nearly spring and there is plenty of planning to do in the garden for the big gardening season. Get some ideas from the latest Chelsea Flower Show, get a head-start of lawn care and learn how to start a new small garden from scratch. Also join us for the Thanks Plants campaign starting this month and win great prizes.

Get ready to ignite your holiday spirit with our December issue! Step into the breathtaking Steenberg Gardens, and discover inspiring ideas to elevate your home's style with quick fixes, from dazzling lighting to stunning wall art. Fire up the barbie for a festive Christmas feast, and create your own unique wreaths with Febe Harris' expert guidance. Our Plant Focus section showcases the charming 'My Grandpa' rose and Wayne's top picks. Plus, craft a charming beverage stand to add a personal touch to your holiday decor. This issue is packed with inspiration for gardeners of all levels to enjoy the festive season.

November's issue is packed with inspiration for gardeners of all levels. Explore a breathtaking feature garden showcasing expert design; discover beautiful plant combinations in our Pots of Power feature, highlighting stunning pairings to elevate your garden style; and learn expert techniques for growing cacti and scabiosa. Our plant focus section spotlights a 'Foxy Lady' rose, a revival of the beautiful gem cleome, and the belles of the ball – fuchsias. Elevate your gardening game with insider tips and stunning inspiration.

This October issue is packed with Spring inspiration! Explore Mirtehof, a serene feature garden showcasing natural beauty and thoughtful design. Discover how practical paving can be beautiful with our expert advice on materials, designs, and patterns. Meet Mangaves, the low-maintenance, ultra-hardy hybrids taking the gardening world by storm! Marvel at dazzling dahlias in every colour of the rainbow. Plus, delve into the fascinating world of clivia hybridizations, unlocking new colours and forms. Get ready to elevate your outdoor space and ignite your passion for gardening with our inspiring features and innovative plant showcases!

Step into Spring with inspirational garden design ideas and tips. Learn how to prep your lawn and get those seeds started for extra colour in the coming months. We’ll help your spring-cleaning smell a little sweeter with our natural lavender extract product recipes. Tackle this month’s DIY project: a versatile arch to decorate any way you want. As we celebrate Arbor week, we share which trees are suitable for urban gardens. This issue is packed with tips to plan your garden tasks for the month.

This packed issue will get you through the colder months in the garden and ready for a bountiful spring garden. Try some cold-hardy plants to add colour to the garden, find out how to build a sustainable garden, and invest in succulent cotyledons. Our Grow to Eat section will take you through how to choose herbal groundcovers and grow sweet potatoes, how to use your vegetables in soups and dumplings, and much more. Plan and action your gardening tasks for July and August with this informative issue.

This May/June issue is a bumper issue with great inspiration and practical gardening info for these months. A bonus section on growing your own herbs and vegetables includes inspirational veggie garden design and tips for seasonal gardening, as well as growing brassicas, lemons, and more. Highlights in this issue include features on butterfly gardening, grey plants, and paving design.

Be inspired by the autumn and winter indigenous garden, plan some edging, or start a rain garden. Discover more beautiful roses and get a handle on veggie garden permaculture principles. There is Autumn inspiration in spades and hints and tips of what can be done in the garden in April. It’s a great time to garden!

March is a time for planting, renewing and rejuvenating parts of the garden and we have just the tips and tricks to get it right and looking beautiful. Lots of inspiration and action-based tasks in this beginning of autumn issue. Learn how to design a veggie garden or grow agaves, bidens, anemones, vincas, calandivas, lobelias and many more in this packed magazine. Enjoy!

Our summer bumper issue is packed with inspiration, practical ideas and things to do in the garden in January and February. Find out what the latest flower and horticulture trends are for the coming year, invest in a water feature, and find out just what pitfalls can await a new gardener. We feature fragrant plants and soft groundcovers while also covering a few low-light houseplants to invest in this year. Join Tanya and Greg for loads to do in the garden with some good tips to try out and try out some potting recipes and a great DIY, step-by-step. Start the year off with a bunch of plants and a spade!

The holidays are here! And this issue of The Gardener is jam-packed with reads to inspire, motivate and get the very best out of your garden this summer. We take a look at garden lighting trends to showcase special features in your garden and decorate an outdoor entertainment area. Our five best mid-summer filler plants will add an extra WOW factor to your garden beds – just in time for Christmas. There’s a super-easy ‘pot recipe’ for a strikingly bold look – a great welcome to guests to your home over the holidays. And for something a little different and fun, try your hand at keeping Marimo moss balls.

Shopping for Christmas gifts can be exhausting, but this year we have chosen 10 plants to give as the perfect gift. And if you’re looking for a Christmas tree with a twist that won’t break the bank – look no further. 

Subscribe now to The Gardener – give a gift to yourself or friends that will keep coming to the end of 2024. Happy holidays!

Summer is well and truly here, so put on the sunscreen and garden hat and make the most of the glorious sunshine as you plant, nurture, and tend to your garden. Be inspired by Tanya’s masterclass on going vertical – great ideas for smaller gardens; we have three ‘hasty’ shrubs for gardeners who want to see fast results; salvias that will look good all summer long; bright and colourful zinnias; beautiful begonias – the choice is endless for a summer garden overflowing with colour. For DIY enthusiasts try your hand at making an easy wall hanging. And don’t miss our special offer to new subscribers – subscribe now and you stand the chance to win two plant pots worth R1 000.

Celebrate spring with the latest releases: Agapanthus varieties that are bigger, better and bolder in colour – a show-stopping sight in any garden; and fragrant roses with a touch of nostalgia. Potted combination ideas to spruce up your garden or patio. Find out what’s trending in veggies and herbs. Get ready for summer with our seed sowing kit; and now’s the time to install an easy DIY garden fence. Also, don’t forget to enter our Thanks Plants competition to win gardening goodies valued at R10 000.

The Spring issues are always packed to the brim with new ideas, inspiration and practical gardening tips to make the beginning of the new season filled with colour and fragrance. Learn what to prune at this time of the year and plan for the rest of the year, join a spring masterclass and make the cutest chess set you have ever seen. There are plenty of plants to grow and edibles to sow.

On our visit to the Chelsea Flower Show this year, we found some wild and wonderful ideas for our gardens at home. This month also sees the launch of the Thanks Plants campaign where lucky readers can win gardening goodies to the value of R10 000 each month for 3 months starting now! We also feature a most-asked topic, trees for small gardens; tackle window box farming; urban composting; and a host of things to do this month in the garden.

You may not think so, but there is so much to do in a winter garden plus planning for the coming spring garden. We have solutions for problem areas, problem solving and must-haves for houseplants, better planting ideas in the vegetable garden and a fun compost quiz. There is also some beautiful inspirational plant features and gardens to explore.



Explore a plant hunter’s garden, some inspirational wall designs from the latest Melbourne Flower Show and get some of your veggie questions answered. On the practical side we show how to deal with frost, what to plant now for winter colour and have a look at some tough ferns and pretty leucadendrons. There is plenty of action in a winter garden and lots of planning for the spring season.

Heading for winter, there are flowers to brighten up the veggie garden, African houseplants to add to your indoors and a big and beautiful plants to discover in the world of horticulture. It's time to plant Asian greens and to make solar lamps for the pathways - we show you how with loads more to keep gardening this month.

Bold colour to plant in an Autumn garden, how to design with grasses, and how to plant on a slope are just some of the features in this issue. There is also some really good tips for food gardening on a shoestring, tips for sharpening tools, how to plant a tree correctly and a host of articles on what to plant, sow, prune and grow this month.

Explore some amazing plants in this issue including agaves, air plants, venus flytraps and cannabis. Find out what needs to be done this month in the garden with plenty of tips of how to do it and also explore a beautiful quirky Noordhoek garden and get inspiration for your very own water feature.

Our 20 year anniversary collection edition packed with stories and interested tidbits on our journey this last 2 decades. Some of our favourite gardens, the plants we love and must have, some of the fun stories we wrote, our contributor's experiences writing for us and our clients share the stories of their journeys with us. This is a must keep edition.

Small spaces, big dreams is the theme for this new year issue of the magazines. It's packed with new ideas and inspiration to start the new year off with a bang. Don't miss this issue for articles on water saving, growing in glass, tough plants, small food gardens, walls and balcony gardening, super vs supersized and much more.

Discover some new and interesting plants in this issue with a look at black-leaved houseplants and trumpet carnivores, and that is just the beginning. Make some gifts and decor from the food garden and see what's available to spruce up your outdoor spaces. Add beautiful colour with zinnias, amaryllis and potted roses. Build a hanging basket stand, plus much more.

From garden design to garden inspiration and plant features to practical advice, this issue has it all. Learn about the fascinating world of carnivorous plants and explore a stunning garden in the KZN Midlands. Plant some herbs, veggies and flowers and do some light summer pruning. Packed with info from cover to cover.

It’s rose month and we can be thankful for roses in 7 unique ways. Choose the best roses for containers and plant some gorgeous summer-flowering bulbs now. Invest in perennial veg and tick off the checklist for tasks in the garden this special month.

Think spring! Bright and colourful plants to enhance a spring garden, inspiration from an entertaining garden and plenty of plants to grow and seeds to sow. We thank plants with local edibles and learn how to combine vegetables and flowers in the garden together. Packed with glorious spring plants and full of ideas to help you and your garden this month.

Don’t miss some botanical tarts, learn how easy it is to start a cut flower garden, how to grow phormiums and how to make stakes and trellises 5 different ways. Build a two-tone bench and get ready to plant, liliums, hellebores, bulbines, bergenia and primulas for loads of colour in your garden.

Plant and sow now for plants that will be forever yours, try some string succulents for indoors, or make a few moss poles for your climbing plants. Put veg on your bucket list, learn how to prune peaches and plums and find food and shelter for wildlife in this packed issue. There is loads more inside...

If you have ever wondered by some leaves are variegated or what an Afro Zen garden looks like, or how to modernise your plant borders this issue of for you. There is also indigenous white flowering shrubs and fynbos, a beautiful garden to explore and plenty of practical info to do in the garden this month.

Autumn is a great time in the garden. We have this month 10 indoor plants you must have, some lovely abelias, gourmet veg for the pot and 5 tall evergreens that are essential for hedging. We also feature when to call in the experts on DIY or do it yourself and how to decorate with hyacinths. Plus plenty more to do and see.

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