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Amateur Gardening |
| Date: |
01/05/01 (91 review reads) |
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Advantages: Easy to read and informative about a broad range of subjects
Disadvantages: Charlie Dimmock
I have been getting AG since 1973 when I got my first very own garden I could do with as I pleased.
This was in the days when Percy Thrower was king and things in the garden were done by the book.
I have seen a lot of changes in the format and content of the magazine,and the price.We certainly get more freebies now than we used to and where we would then get a pack of six peat pots or a dozen plastic plant labels now it is all free seeds sometimes three or more packs at a time so,sometimes if you work out the cost of the seeds we are getting the book free.Just in April we have received,Nastursiums,Nicotiana,Cerinthe(a perennial which will come back each year),and Helianthus which we also have a chance to re-name.
I specially like the section What's New which reviews the new books and gadgets on the market,something that wasn't done when I first started getting it.
I also like the readers garden section which tells you what an ordinary gardener has done to his plot,I have had lots of ideas out of this.
The Postbag is usually informative and sometimes funny.I have found the Q&A helpline very helpful on occasion,what is really useful is that you can telephone and speak to the experts Monday to Friday or,you can e-mail them or write to them.
The articles about specific plants,in the issue dated 26th April it is about peonies,are always interesting and contain beautiful pictures of the plant in question.
The only thing I don't like about the magazine is Charlie Dimmock,but I am not over keen on her anyway,but Peter Seabrook and Bob Flowerdew are always informative and entertaining.
All in all a very good magazine that is not in your face like some of the other big glossies and one I would,and have recommended to gardeners old and new.
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