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Garden News is Britain's most trusted voice in gardening with practical and informative advice features from experts, including Carol Klein. Plus, the step-by-step guides and how to tips and tricks are easy to follow and will ensure your garden is at it's best - whatever the weather!

How to thrive in the hot weather

GROWING TOGETHER • A hub for sustainable food ecology and creativity has opened in North London, reports Ian Hodgson

NEW FOR THE GARDEN

GOING WILD! • A new book explores garden wildlife from a fresh angle, reports Ian Hodgson

GARDEN helpers! • Your companions that make gardening special

Creating a fine balance • Accessible gardens around a Cornish retirement village marry a rich horticultural past with modern living

Get your garden ready for a SCORCHING SUMMER! • With these tools and tricks of the trade, you can prepare your plot for any heat and drought conditions

Get out and be inspired! • What better way to relax – and pick up some great ideas at the same time – than visiting a wonderful NGS garden?

How to grow hardy SUCCULENTS • Create a sensational summer display to ramp up your garden’s exotic flavour

Plants that have ALTITUDE! • Use vertical accents in your garden display to really help it come alive

Over the FENCE

PLANT A SHRUB THIS SUMMER • But make sure you’re ready with the water so any impulse purchases are set up right!

GROW PLANTS TO HANDLE DROUGHT • Adapt your planting to cope with our increasingly hot, dry summers

HYDRATION STATIONS AT THE READY! • It’s not only our plants that need a good source of water in summer

SOW LOVELY LEAFY VEG • Kohlrabi, endive and Florence fennel are just some of the delights to grow now

Pick of the crops • It’s high-summer harvest time – and there’s lots still left to sow

Cheesy summer vegetable bake

A blooming great year so far! • Wet weather followed by warmth means roses are flowering a lot earlier

THE PROBLEM SOLVER

TEA BREAK • Weekly prize crossword

Pick of the POST

Roll out the savings with these great barrel planters!

Super-scented Narcissus jonquilla Collection

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