Amateur Gardening Magazine
5 August 2025
Upbeat, accessible and expert-led ideas from the friendly team at Amateur Gardening magazine to help save time, money, and boost results in the process. From the most up-to-date ways to help the natural world, plants that are due a come-back, heavenly hostas, happy hollyhocks, dazzling dahlias, money-saving project ideas, foraging gardens and more. This issue, our merry band of brilliant AG expert contributors include Ruth Hayes, Bob Flowerdew,, Anne Swithinbank, Kim Stoddart, Lucy Chamberlain, Sue Bradley, Michael Perry, Rosie Irving, John Negus, Mike Palmer, Kim O’Brien, Graham Clarke, Nick Hamilton, Liz Zorab and Toby Buckland!
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How to grow perfect pears
Getting the natural balance right with ivy and other useful, but vigorous growers
9 come-back blooms
Your letters to kim
2 creative ideas for displaying short-stemmed dahlias
How to make a hibernaculum
Crossword... just for fun!
Hollyhock happiness
10 plants that work hard, so you don’t have to
Growing chervil, taking rosemary and lavender cuttings, and the edible potential of the common weed, fat hen
How to grow an array of heavenly hostas
Natural gardening leads the way
