Amateur Gardening (magazine)
- Amateur Gardening (magazine)
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title = Amateur Gardening
editor = Tim Rumball
frequency = Monthly
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company = IPC Media
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country = United Kingdom
website = [http://www.amateurgardening.co.uk/ Amateur Gardening]
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"Amateur Gardening" is a British magazine dedicated to gardening, including the latest gardening news, advice, feature articles and celebrity columns and interviews.
Famous writers for the weekly magazine have included Alan Titchmarsh - who also worked there as deputy editor;
Monty Don, Charlie Dimmock;Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinback, Percy Thrower and Peter Seabrook; Among previous editors were Adrian Bishop (also editor-in-chief and publisher); Graham Clarke; Peter Wood; Arthur Hellyer and Shirley Hibberd.
The magazine was launched in May 1884 and is the UK's oldest consumer gardening magazine. It is Britain's best-selling weekly gardening publication. In recent years, its editorial office has been in Poole, Dorset.
To mark the Millennium, it launched its Allotments 2000 campaign, which called for - and achieved - a Parliamentary inquiry into the future of allotments.
It has a successful consumer show, The National Amateur Gardening Show (NAGS) which takes place at the Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, each September.
ee also
*List of horticultural magazines
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