Amateur Gardening (magazine)
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title = Amateur Gardening |
image = <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:AMGARD012.jpg|200px|center]] --> ''December 1999 Issue'' |
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 [[United Kingdom|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.
==See also==
*[[List of horticultural magazines]]
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[[Category:British magazines]]
[[Category:Horticultural magazines]]
[[Category:Gardening in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Publications established in 1884]]
[[Category:Weekly magazines]]