Plants & plant advice
6/ SPRING INTO ACTION
Get your garden in shape for the coming
season with our top tips and great offers
/ REPEAT PERFORMERS
Fill your garden with colour year after year
with the best cottage garden plants
/ MAKE A SPLASH
We've rounded up the most beautiful
begonias to brighten up your garden
/ POTS OF PERFECTION
Follow our three-step rule for guaranteed
container planting success
/ THE BRIGHT BRIGADE
Treat your garden to a spring makeover
with a selection of vibrant shrubs
/ LUSH LAWN GUIDE
Put the loveliness back into your lawn and
make your neighbours green with envy
Outdoor living
COME DINE WITH US
Eat alfresco in style with our most elegant
collection of garden furniture ever
THE BARBECUE CHEF
Exclusive new barbecues plus a delicious
chicken recipe to try hot from the grill
/ GARDENER'S RETREAT
How to transform your potting shed
into the perfect place to escape
30 Come dine with us
Garden care
/ WEED IT OUT
Discover how to get rid of and control
every gardeners greatest enemies
/ CREATE A RAISED BED
In just an afternoon you can build a really
practical space for growing in any garden
/ GARDEN DEFENCE FORCE
49 Garden defence force
Consultant editor Zia Allaway Editorial Alison Krog, Sarah Dyson, Ian Whiteling,
Steph Wilkinson Art Torben Krog, Alex Fanning Picture editor Dominique Campbell
Photography Terry Benson. Covers and additional photography FhF Greenmedia;
Zia Allaway; Marianne Majerus/MMGI; Rachel Warne, Clive Nichols, Geoff Kidd,
John Glover, Rachel Warne, Victoria Firmston, Pat Tuson, Jonathan Buckley, Lee Avison,
Fiona Lea, Friedrich Strauss, Jacqui Dracup, John Swithinbank, Dave Bevan,
Carole Drake, Matt Anker, Tim Gainey, Howard Rice/GAP Photos; Tim Sandall/RHS ;
Jonathan James; Brian North/Dorling Kindersley; Marie O'Hara/garden-collection.com;
age fotostock/Alamy Production Trevor Simpson Repro Haymarket Prepress
Account management Steph Allister, Justine Loehry Editorial director Simon Kanter
Managing director Haymarket Network Andrew Taplin
10 Repeat performers
Encourage an army of wildlife who will
protect your plants from common pests
‘Exclusive’ in this magazine means plants and products that are exclusive
this spring to the 11 independent garden centre companies that are
members ofthe Tillingtonbuying group. Beautiful Gardens is a registered
trademark of Beautiful Gardens Limited. Plants and products featured
are subject to availability and while stocks last. Dates and prices correct
at time of going to press.
Beautiful Gardens is published by Haymarket Network, telephone 020 8267 5000. Colour
reproduction by Haymarket Pre-press. Printed by Polestar. All rights reserved. Material may
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for the accuracy ofthe information therein, or any consequence arising from it.
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