Gardens Made Easy

As I am shortly due to move to a new house (which has a garden) and as I am asolutely useless at anything horticultural I decided to buy some gardening magazines and this was amonst them. Gardens Made Easy - does exactly that - makes gardening easy! There are LOADS of descriptive illustrations and sumptuous photos, which means the inexperienced gardener like myself doesn't have to rely fully on the text. The front cover is very glossy and friendly looking. It almost invites you to pick the magazine up from the shelf it is so appealing. THe issue I picked up had 2 lovely competitions in; One to win some garden plans by a designer and the other to win ...  Read the complete review

Gardens Made Easy is a new publication launched in March 2000. To help win readers in an already saturated market they have given away many free gifts with their first issues including seeds, seed trays and gloves. I admit this marketing ploy has worked on and as I've explored the magazine I've been impressed. Its aim is to be an all round magazine and its first issues have a good balance of hard-landscaping information and planting. They use a good system of pictorial logos to highlight products they believe stand out in their review features and mark them as either style, ideas, value, quality or green choice - this makes for a good, quick ...  Read the complete review