Layering

Pot up little offshoots and you’ll have a whole new bed of plants in no time

With AG’s gardening expert Ruth Hayes

In your flower garden

Liz Zorab picks her favourite self-seeding and spreading plants for easier gardening

Throughout August I cut the box hedges that give shape to the vegetable garden. They’re just under waist height but that’s enough to protect most plants from the wind and they are a good dark backgrou

Amateur Gardening is proud to encourage its readers to work with nature. Sue Bradley discovers how increasing numbers of people are embracing organic methods of gardening