Otter Magazine - Spring 2020

Spring 2020

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SPRING
ALL SUMMER LONG GARDENING

Wgaridldelnifieng IDEAS

MADE SIMPLE SEE
INSIDE
Green chic VOUFCOHRERS

OUR FAVOURITE Sempervivum
HOUSEPLANTS Chick Charms
'Cranberry Cocktail'

Spring sensations
Brilliant plants for seasonal colour

A warm welcome to our 6 22
Spring magazine
17 41
A s we celebrate the start of the gardening season, we
are delighted to bring you our new magazine. We ContentsSpring 2020
believe this is the most exciting time of year for any PLANT CARE OUTDOOR LIFE
gardener, as we welcome the spring and look forward to the
promise of fine weather, longer days and glorious growing. 6 All about roses 30 Summer living
Tips and advice for Stylish furniture solutions
We hope our magazine will inspire you when it comes beautiful blooms for seasonal entertaining
to choosing new plants and stylish garden furniture, as
well as finding ways to make your garden more wildlife 9 Perfect pots 36 Cook up a storm
friendly. Remember to check out our special voucher offers Four fantastic planted Smart new BBQ kit, plus
in the centre pages, especially chosen to help get your new container combinations tasty spring recipes
gardening season off to a great start.
14 Climbing heroes POT TO PLATE
With our continued passion for gardening and growing We showcase our
our own plants, we are proud to offer one of the widest favourite clematis 41 Pick of the bunch
ranges of home-grown stock in the UK, ensuring you Easy ways to grow your
receive the best quality nursery-fresh plants at Otter. 17 Inspiring plants for own tomatoes and chillies
a wildlife garden
Not only do we offer everything you require for your How to attract more GARDEN CARE
garden, we also have an inspirational selection of products bees and butterflies
for the home. Don’t forget to browse all our departments
when you visit any of our seven garden centres. Come and
see what’s new, and enjoy delicious home-made food and
drink in our coffee shops while you visit.

From everyone at Otter Garden Centres, here’s to a
wonderful 2020 in the garden.

22 Welcome home 46 The ultimate
Hard-working houseplants garden tool kit
for every room We have the perfect tool
for every task

25 Gardening SOS 48 A tree for all gardens
Our expert answers your Colourful tree selections
lawn-care questions for gardens of every size

Malcolm & The Tillington Group is an association of some of the best independent garden centre Beautiful Gardens is a registered
Marilyn White businesses in the UK, co-operating in buying and marketing. ‘EXCLUSIVE’ in this trademark of Beautiful Gardens Ltd.
– founders of magazine means plants and products that are exclusive this spring to the Tillington Group.
Otter Garden ‘NEW’ in this magazine means a plant variety that is new to the garden centres in the
Centres Tillington Group this year. It may have been trialled previously in other markets.
Plants and products featured are subject to availability and while stocks last.
2/BEAUTIFUL GARDENS Dates and prices correct at time of going to press.

Consultant editor Aileen Scoular Photography Terry Benson Covers and additional photography Terry Benson; GAP
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cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information therein, or any consequence arising from it.

Spring into action WHAT TO DO NOW

BRIGHT Easy-care plants
IDEAS SUPER

For seasonal colour SEMPERVIVUMS
and style
The trend for low-maintenance
Bee happy NEW, succulents means
Over-sized teacup SCENTED
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plant not included) known as houseleeks) are
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PLANT CARE CONTAINERS

Perfect pots

Clever containers are not just about bedding plants. With
colourful shrubs and flowering perennials, you can

create stylish combinations throughout the year

SUNNY SIDE UP Metal ribbed cylinder
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Buddleia and a variegated euphorbia both play
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petunia, lavender, Dianthus ‘Pink Kisses’ and silver-
leaved Convolvulus cneorum. Two vintage-style
ribbed metal planters complete the look.

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PLANT CARE CONTAINERS 4

“Display your containers in groups 5
of two or three for extra impact”

ORIENTAL STYLE

Japanese maples can be
successfully grown in large

containers, such as these
artisan-style, salt-glazed pots.
Pair with fine-leaved grasses,

and display in a sheltered
spot. Key plants: 1 Acer;

2 Hakonechloa macra ‘Allgold’;
3 Carex siderosticha ‘Shiro’ (right)

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grasses, ferns, heuchera and
10/BEAUTIFUL GARDENS ivy for year-round interest,
and choose these RHS white
ceramic pots to lighten and
brighten a shady corner.

Key plants: 4 Fatsia ‘Spider’s
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PLANT CARE CLEMATIS

VAPRATI EI OT Y

C. montana ‘Miss Christine’ C. montana ‘Elizabeth’ C. montana var. grandiflora C. ‘Ansley’ Perfect for patio
Fragranced white flowers Pale-pink single flowers Plentiful pure white blooms pots, with large scarlet flowers
H: 8-12m May–June
H: 8m May–June H: 10m May–June H: 4m May–June / Sept

Climbing heroes
If you want to cover a fence, a wall or an arch, or grow a climber in
a patio pot, there’s a beautiful clematis for every garden location

E A R LY
FLOWERS

C. montana ‘Broughton Star’ C. ‘Avalanche’ Evergreen C. ‘Bijou’ Very compact variety, C. montana ‘Pink Perfection’
Pretty purple-bronze leaves variety with spring flowers ideal for patio containers Fragranced, with bronze leaves
H: 30cm June–Aug
H: 6m May–June H: 3m March–May H: 7m May–June

C. ‘Blue Angel’ Masses of large C. ‘Charmaine’ Compact variety C. montana rubens ‘Superba’ C. ‘Meghan’ Named after the
pale lilac summer flowers with charming ruffled flowers Scented pale-pink flowers Duchess of Sussex
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Three tips

FOR TOP
R E S U LT S

To help your
clematis look its
best: grow over

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specialist clematis

food; and prune
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C lematis are grown for their beautiful, a splash of colour as early as March, while
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combining different varieties in bloom in September. You can grow clematis
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early spring right through to late summer. obelisk – other plants will cover the
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shade. Once established, some Clematis You can also train a summer-flowering
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PLANT CARE WILDLIFE GARDENING

A Common blue
butterfly rests
on Scabious
‘Butterfly Blue
Beauty’

Inspiring plants
wildliffeorgaarden

If you’d like to attract more bees and butterflies this summer, here are
some simple gardening tips – plus our insect-friendly plant guide

BEAUTIFUL GARDENS/17

PLANT CARE WILDLI FE GARDENING

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Hedgehog
Blend, Combining different
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flowering times produces
A busy bee hotel Five easy tips Timber and slate a good supply of pollen
FOR hedgehog house, £29.99 and nectar for insects in
I n recent years, our spring and summer.
gardens have become WILDLIFE intact over winter for birds
an increasingly GARDENING to feed on. Installing bee 1 Lavender ‘Vera’
important source of food, hotels for solitary bees, Highly fragrant flowers.
water and shelter for Use fallen logs and tree hedgehog shelters, and a
insects, birds, hedgehogs, branches to create a log small log pile will help, and June–Aug
frogs and toads. And the pile for insects to shelter in a source of water will be 2 Hebe ‘Celine’ Evergreen
trend for wildlife gardening appreciated – from a bird shrub. April–June
is having a positive effect: • bath to a small pond. 3 Polemonium
more sparrows, coal tits Install a bug box on a shed ‘Bressingham Purple’
and goldfinches were wall or a tree – choose a PLANTING TIPS Dark-leaved perennial.
spotted in the 2019 RSPB warm, dry place where the
Big Garden Birdwatch, You can also help to May–July
and last summer proved to rain can’t get in feed bees, hoverflies and 4 Erysimum
be a record year for Painted • butterflies by planting Sunset varieties
Lady butterflies. insect-friendly plants that Perennial wallflower.
Encourage hedgehogs by flower from early spring to
ECO-GARDENING IDEAS leaving a small gap under autumn. Insects especially April–Sept
your fence for access, and love flowers with pollen 5 Digitalis purpurea
What we plant, and how by providing shelter and and nectar that is easy ‘Dalmation Purple’
we garden, can have a big a shallow bowl of special to reach: these include and 6 ‘Dalmation White’
impact on the safety and daisy-shaped flowers, Compact foxgloves.
survival of Britain’s birds hedgehog pellets (like cosmos and single
and wildlife. Simple ways • dahlias), umbellifers (such June-July
of eco-friendly gardening as verbena and achillea) 7 Scabiosa ‘Pink Mist’
include using peat-free Hang nesting boxes where and tubular or bell-shaped Long-flowering perennial.
compost, nature-friendly cats and foxes can’t reach flowers (including salvia
slug pellets and organic them, to attract small birds, and foxglove). Choosing July–Sept
plant feeds, letting your plants that flower at 8 Daphne odora
lawn grow a little longer like tits and robins different times of the year, ‘Rebecca’ Scented
between cuts, and leaving • with a variety of flower evergreen shrub.
some flower seed-heads shapes, will keep the insects
Prune shrubs with hips and returning to your garden. Jan–March
18/BE AUTIFUL GARDE NS berries in early spring so 9 Verbena bonariensis
that birds can enjoy the Tall, airy perennial.
fruit over winter
June–Sept
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The range of houseplants
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a touch of luxury to the
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You’ll find a wide variety of
our favourite houseplants in
store, alongside many beautiful
pots and plant stands.

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PLANT CARE HOUSEPLANTS

5 67 Boston
fern
Emerald fern
TOP TIP
8 WARM & HUMID
Combine
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warm, moist air in your with feathery ferns
Keeping a selection of leafy bathroom. Contrast leaf
plants in your bedroom can shapes for extra impact. for a modern
help to boost general feelings effect
of health and wellbeing. 11 Emerald fern (Asparagus
sprengeri); 12 Dragon tree Houseplant
5 Boston fern (Nephrolepis (Dracaena marginata); Q&A
exaltata); 6 Double-stemmed 13 Peace lily (Spathiphyllum
orchid; 7 Swiss cheese plant ‘Cupido Compacto’); How often should I water
(Monstera obliqua); 8 Kentia palm 9 10 14 Flaming sword (Vriesea my houseplants?
(Howea forsteriana); 9 Heart leaf splendens Royale Mix);
(Philodendron scandens); 15 Swiss cheese plant It’s important to avoid
10 Philodendron ‘Xanadu’ (Monstera deliciosa) overwatering. Only water if
the compost feels dry, and
11 12 13 always allow excess water
to drain away: houseplants
BRIGHT & SUNNY STYLE can rot if they sit in water.
NOTES
The kitchen windowsill Will my houseplants
(pictured left) is the Find an exciting need feeding?
ideal spot for these easy- selection of indoor
care, sun-loving plants. All houseplants benefit
pot covers in from a liquid feed during
1 Inch plant (Tradescantia store the growing season (from
‘Purple Flame’); 2 Elephant ear March to September). You
(Alocasia zebrina); 3 Aloe vera; can also buy specialist
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Otter Garden Centre’s gardening expert Marilyn White
helps you solve your seasonal lawn-care dilemmas Lawn
solutions

Q When should Q How can I repair a Trim lawn edges with Kent & Q How can I
I start feeding worn or bumpy lawn? Stowe edging shears (above); grow a lawn
and cutting my use Gro-Sure from seed?
lawn? To level out uneven Multipurpose
dips or bumps, insert Lawn Seed Mid-spring is
Early spring is your spade under the (right) for a a good time
the perfect time turf and gently roll it lush green to create a
to begin. Make back. Remove or add carpet on any lawn from seed
the first cut soil as required, then soil type because the soil
when your grass replace the turf and is warm and
is dry and frost- water well. Worn edges moist. Start by
free, with the can be neatened with weeding the
mower blades a half-moon edging area thoroughly and remove
at the highest setting. tool and trimmed with large stones. Rake the soil
A few days after edging shears, and well, then smooth it down
mowing, apply an all- bare patches can be by ‘treading’ over the surface
in-one lawn feed, weed sown over with a fast- in different directions. Once
and moss treatment – growing ‘lawn patch’ firm, apply a general purpose
this will boost nutrient mix. Rake the soil fertiliser, such as Growmore,
levels in the soil, and first to remove loose and rake again in different
make it harder for grass and moss, scatter directions. Sow the grass
moss and weeds to the seed, cover with seed lightly across the level
survive. Rake out the birdproof netting, and soil surface, following the
dead moss, and re-seed water regularly. manufacturer’s instructions
any bare areas. on seed quantity. Lightly rake
again, to ensure good contact
What other between the seed and the soil,
problems do then water with a sprinkler.
you have in your Water every few days, if the
garden? Talk to weather’s dry, to help the seed
our experts in germinate. Make your first
cut when the grass is at least
store 5-7.5cm (2-3in) high, and use
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TREAT YOURSELF

Come in for coffee
F R E S H LY
GROUND

If you like the idea of a
cappuccino or latte with
your cake, you may be

pleased to learn our
coffee is made with
freshly ground coffee

beans roasted
in Devon.

So next time you are
passing, we’d be
delighted if you stopped
by for a delicious drink
and one of our tasty
home-baked cakes –
we guarantee you’ll be
back for more!
Our coffee shops are
open 9am to 5pm
Monday to Saturday
and 10am to 4pm on

Sundays*.

Hoamt eObttaekring *Please visit our website to
check opening and closing times
H ere at Otter, our bakery chefs enjoy making delicious
cakes and scones daily, just for you! for your nearest branch
As well as a selection of freshly made snacks and www.ottergardencentres.com
hot meals, we offer a wide range of delectable home-baked
cakes and sweet treats in all our coffee shops, including OTTER
gluten-free options. Wherever possible we choose to source APPLE JUICE
ingredients locally.
New to our coffee shops, Otter
Most popular are our delicious carrot cake, Victoria sponge Apple Juice is home-made with our own
and mouth-watering chocolate brownie. If you fancy a cream apples, grown in Devon and hand-picked
tea, try our famous sweet scones, with or without fruit. Being a
Devon-based business we’re proud to say we put our cream on by our enthusiastic team members!
first and jam on top!

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From casual dining to relaxing with family and friends, our versatile
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Above: Chatsworth Chichester square
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Perfectly designed for protection (3m sq.
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lunches £1,499.99 £499.99
Below: Chatsworth double
Right: Chatsworth cocoon chair A romantic
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Palma collection has sturdy Compact and space-saving for
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foam-filled cushions. £499.99
Scatter cushions sold separately.
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Accessories

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Top: Palma 4-seat round set Gather FOR COMFORT
round for cool drinks or summer brunch Extreme Lounging wipe-clean
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Above: Palma 6-seat round set Dine in £14.99 each
style at this elegant glass-topped table
(set includes a 3m wind-up grey parasol, BEAUTIFUL GARDENS/33
with a 22kg concrete base) £1,499.99
Below: Palma lounger duo set Put your
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FOR WARMTH
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For a sleek, modern effect,
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Top: Timber Deluxe corner dining
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TASTY SPRING RECIPE Three of the best
BBQ
Try this recipe, created by Weber chefs, using spring lamb and fresh herbs
AC C E S S O R I E S
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POT TO PLATE SUMMER VEG

Pick of the bunch
If you’d like to grow your own edible plants, tomatoes and chilli peppers are an easy way to start.
Here are some of our favourite varieties, and expert tips on growing tomatoes from seed

G rowing your own fruit and and you don’t need loads of space.
vegetables lets you experience the Take tomatoes: the range of grow-your-
amazing flavour of fresh produce,
straight from the garden, and it allows you own tomato plants is more varied than
to try new or unusual varieties not sold in ever. You can grow dwarf or cherry tomato
the supermarket. The good news is that varieties in hanging baskets, window boxes
growing-your-own can be very simple, and patio pots, while traditional ‘cordon’
varieties grow well in a pot or a grow-bag

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POT TO PLATE SUMMER VEG

How to
GROW TOMATO PLANTS FROM SEED

in an unheated YOU’LL NEED 1. Fill compostable 6. When the tomato
greenhouse,or in Tomato seeds • Seed & cuttings compost seed pots with plants are about
a sunny border. • Compostable pots • Seed tray and lid • compost – these 20cm/8ins tall, plant
Watering can (with fine rose) • Growing bag make potting-on into a growbag,
Tumbling or trailing tray • Growing bag and halo supports • Canes easy at a later date, covering the bottom
tomato varieties need no and use no plastic. third of the stem
pinching out, whereas and string • Tomato feed 2. Gently push two with compost (this
‘cordon’ varieties are or three tomato makes the plant
grown with a bamboo 12 seeds into each pot, more stable).
support, and need their and cover with a thin 7. Add a bamboo
side shoots pinched out layer of compost. cane for support,
every few days. All tomato 3. Lightly water and tie the plant
plants benefit from daily the compost. loosely to the cane
watering (try using ice 4. Cover the with string. If you’re
cubes in very hot weather), seed tray with a using a horizontal-
plus feeding when the lid to encourage style growbag, with
yellow flowers appear. germination, and circular holes, a plant
With plenty of sunshine, place in a heated ‘halo’ is a simple way
some varieties can be ready greenhouse or on to support the cane
to eat from mid-July. a sunny windowsill. and it also makes
5. When the seeds watering easier.
Chilli peppers can be germinate, remove 8. Water tomato
grown in medium-sized the weakest plants daily, in the
pots on a sunny window- seedlings leaving morning or in the
sill, in a greenhouse, or one to grow into a evening, and apply
outdoors on a bright, sturdy baby plant. tomato feed once
sheltered patio, and they the flowers appear.
should be ready to harvest 3
from late July onwards. 4

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Tomatoes and chilli peppers are both available as grafted plants and
starter plants. These can be planted outside in the garden, or in an

unheated greenhouse, when there’s no further risk of frost

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WCLINANSESRICS ½ cucumber (peeled
& de-seeded)
Tomato ‘Gardener’s Delight’ Tomato ‘Tumbling Tom’ Tomato ‘Sungold’ 1 large yellow pepper
Reliable cherry tomato with a Ideal for hanging baskets and Dainty cherry tomato with (de-seeded)
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(de-seeded)
fruit. Cordon variety Trailing variety Cordon variety 6 ripe tomatoes
2 banana shallots
TA S T Y 3 garlic cloves, minced or
CHILLIES finely chopped
100g/3½oz stale white bread,
Pepper ‘Apache’ Pepper ‘Jalapeno’ Pepper ‘Sweet Banana’ soaked in cold water
Compact plant that produces Fiery-hot chilli with plump, Long yellow, sweetly-spiced 3 tbsp olive oil
chillis that mature over time 2 tbsp sherry vinegar
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very hot red chillies eventually turn red. to orange-red. to garnish
Method
1. Set aside a small chunk
of cucumber and the
cherry tomatoes to garnish,
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vegetables.
2. Using a food processor,
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soaked bread, olive oil and
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until smooth, then season.
3. Transfer the soup to a
lidded container and chill.
4. Halve the cherry
tomatoes and chop the
spare cucumber into small
cubes. Serve the gazpacho
in bowls, garnished with
the tomato and cucumber.

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