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More from Welcome Editor of the Year: Homes & Gardens Join us… A ugust is the month of easy on 20 September for an exclusive pickings from the veg plot, tour of HRH Prince of Wales’ languid meals outdoors, the gardens at Highgrove. Relax gentle thrum of bees at work with fizz, three-course dinner and a shift in the plant palette and a talk by Gardeners’ World to hot and sultry. It’s holiday TV presenter Arit Anderson. season – and where is a more See GardenersWorld.com/ relaxing place than the garden? arit-highgrove It’s also the time, unlikely as Discover… it might seem amidst peak harvest, that wildlife starts to how to be a greener withdraw from our gardens gardener with our (read more from Wildlife Editor Masterclass and Q&A Kate Bradbury, on page 90). hosts Kate Bradbury You can encourage wildlife to find you and your plants – and stay and David Hurrion, on longer in your garden – with a few simple steps now: watering to 26 August. Tickets are boost nectar production in wildlife-attracting plants, mulching to just £15 for this online event lock in moisture to the ground and encourage healthy soil life, and at GardenersWorld.com/Grow-How ensuring a non-stop succession of single, nectar-rich flowers. Could you do more? It’s the question we pose in our big story this Listen out… month, on ‘rewilding’ your garden – inspired by this year’s Best in Show at the Chelsea Flower Show: a back-to-nature space that got for Dame Prue Leith sharing her love of everyone talking. Was it a garden or a stage set? I loved it, for the gardening – and why it’s never too late in sheer skill in recreating an evocative piece of landscape at the heart life to start a new garden, on the magazine of the show, and because it got us all talking. As gardeners, we can’t podcast. Find it in Apple or Spotify apps strictly ‘rewild’ a landscape that measures metres not miles wide, as and GardenersWorld.com/podcast in large estates across the UK. But we can all do our bit in the huge climate challenge we face, by welcoming in nature – both native Trim and shape… plants and creatures – and manage our plot to help it thrive. Share with us, through email and our social media, what steps your garden to perfection with you’re taking and we’ll publish the best here in the coming months. our 132-page special edition, Till next time, enjoy your own patch of great (little) outdoors – Your Pruning Year. Out now at there’s nowhere like it! just £7.99, or buy online and IMAGES: SARAH CUTTLE; JOLYON Lucy Hall, Editor It’s not too late HOLROYD; JASON INGRAM. save 25% on the cover price to benefit from EDITOR’S PORTRAIT: JASON INGRAM at magsdirect.co.uk/ @lucyhall_GW our 2 for 1 GWGPruning garden entry scheme. For Keep up to date with us at some Cornish inspiration, FACEBOOK @GWmagazine turn to p26 INSTAGRAM @gardenersworldmag TWITTER @GWmag PS ... are you garden visiting this summer? You can save £££s with 3 PINTEREST @GWmag Looking to get in touch? Turn to page 138 our 2 for 1 entry card – available now and valid at 392 gardens – through to April 2023. Explore more at GardenersWorld.com/gardens August 2022 GardenersWorld.com

We August On the cover… 42 64 Contents 30 78 We love... O ers for you 46 106 84 6 We love August offers 53 14 Expert’s choice: agapanthus 70 19 Full Monty: learning from failures 20 Have your say: readers’ letters 22 Clippings: news for gardeners Dahlia ‘Bishop of Auckland’ by GAP Photos/Martin Hughes-Jones 26 2 for 1 Gardens: Cornish highlights 16 Be inspired Get your borders 36 Carol’s trees to treasure buzzing all summer 46 Adam Frost on cooking outdoors with 9 FREE pollinator- 53 On test: gas barbecues friendly perennials 84 Growing Greener: reducing waste FREE Do it now 16 9 wildlife perennials worth £65, plus other plant o ers 30 Monty’s August veg patch wisdom 42 Plant up Arit’s vibrant pot display Subscribe today! 64 64 Alan’s tips for water features Follow Alan’s 70 Growing and displaying cut flowers 28 Take out a subscription and get guide to making a water feature 78 Why and how to rewild your garden our guide to pruning, worth £7.99 106 Frances Tophill: pruning magnolias 152 Treat a friend to a subscription Grow & Eat and pay only £5 for the first 3 issues 92 Rekha’s allotment tips and spicy scones 96 Sustainable growing: saving veg seeds 105 Crops to sow and plant this month Wildlife 121 92 90 What to spot in August Explore West Turn sweetcorn Country gardens harvests into Q&A with GW Associate spicy treats Editor David Hurrion 131 Maximise your tomato harvest ON TEST 132 Gardeners’ Question Time Travel 53 Last words 62 3 garden tours on the Italian Riviera, the Italian lakes and Norfolk Check out our 138 Crossword best buy gas 153 Next month 121 Discover beautiful Dorset and barbecues 154 Tales from Titchmarsh Somerset gardens in late summer 84 Plants with our 103 Free p&p on spring bulbs advice 129 Great savings on citrus and fig trees For more great o ers visit: GardenersWorld.com/o ers 4 GardenersWorld.com August 2022

42 Create instant impact with Arit’s colourful container 70 30 Your 11-page August planner How to pick, prepare Monty revels in and arrange your August’s bounty and 50 things to do sows winter crops this month homegrown flowers Monty’s month 113 46 Flowers 116 PHOTOS: SARAH CUTTLE; PAUL DEBOIS; NEIL HEPWORTH; JASON INGRAM ILLUSTRATION: ELIN BROKENSHAW Adam shows you Greenhouse 119 great ways to cook Fruit & veg 123 and dine alfresco Around the garden 127 August 2022 GardenersWorld.com 5

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We August PHOTO: PAUL DEBOIS August 2022 We love August The month of holidays, tan lines and the slightly fading grandeur of our gardens as we sashay our way towards September, and the return to school and proper work. If you have been away somewhere exotic and have just staggered through the door exhausted by poolside cocktails, airports and overtired children, then perhaps this magazine was sitting on your doormat ËÓÌ« æÅ í° âÓª ³ÅÅæ Ì ĕĄ âæ  Welcome home – I hope you had a great break, and are ready for the glut of harvest time in your vegetable garden and the best of the dahlias yet to come. WORDS James Alexander-Sinclair STAR OF THE MONTH Lythrum salicaria ‘Feuerkerze’ Although we have to choose one plant to be our Star Plant from this stunning assemblage of colour and texture that does not mean that we eschew the other plants. While it is good to admire individual plants, the power of gardening is always in combinations. The subtle (or not so subtle) layering of plants together is the effect that will make the °  âíĕòíí â Ì  â³Ì« æ˳ŠíÓĄÓò⪠  c° ÅĄí°âò˳æ a zinger but without monarda, astrantia, helenium, salvia, miscanthus, parrotia (and many others), it would not be quite as sexy. Hi Ho, summer! Best in full sun in moist soil, so great on pond edges. Divide plants in spring Height x Spread 120cm x 40cm GardenersWorld.com 7