Amateur Gardening (magazine) 2321679 215942558 2008-05-30T11:21:07Z Charles Matthews 12978 lk {{Infobox_Magazine| title = Amateur Gardening | image = <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:AMGARD012.jpg|200px|center]] --> ''December 1999 Issue'' | editor = Tim Rumball | frequency = Monthly | category = | company = [[IPC Media]] | firstdate = | finaldate = | finalnumber = | country = [[United Kingdom]] | website = [http://www.amateurgardening.co.uk/ Amateur Gardening] | issn = | }} '''''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]] {{culture-mag-stub}} [[Category:British magazines]] [[Category:Horticultural magazines]] [[Category:Gardening in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Publications established in 1884]] [[Category:Weekly magazines]]