Amateur Gardening is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 magazine dedicated to gardening, including news, advice, feature articles and celebrity columns and interviews.

Famous writers for the weekly magazine have included Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...

 - who also worked there as deputy editor;
Monty Don

Monty Don

Montagu Denis Wyatt Don is a British television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture, best known for presenting the BBC television series Gardeners' World.-Early life:...

, Charlie Dimmock

Charlie Dimmock

Charlie Dimmock is an English gardening expert and TV presenter. She was one of the team on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover programme.-Early years:...

;Bob Flowerdew

Bob Flowerdew

Bob Flowerdew is an organic gardener, and television and radio presenter. He is a regular panel member of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. He has nearly an acre of garden in Dickleburgh, Norfolk, England, where he lives with his wife, Vonetta, a care worker, and their twins, Italia and...

, Anne Swithinbank

Anne Swithinbank

Anne Swithinbank is a trained horticulturist, freelance gardening broadcaster and writer. She trained at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew Gardens and was Glasshouse Supervisor at the Royal Hortcultural Society's garden at Wisley, Surrey.She is known for being a regular panellist on Gardeners'...

, Percy Thrower

Percy Thrower

Percy John Thrower MBE was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer born at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire....

 and Peter Seabrook

Peter Seabrook

Peter Seabrook is a British gardening writer and television broadcaster. He is well known for his work on the long running BBC gardening programme, Gardeners' World.He is currently the gardening correspondent of The Sun.-External links:*]]....

. Tim Rumball is the current editor. Among previous editors were Adrian Bishop (also editor-in-chief and publisher); Graham Clarke; Peter Wood; Arthur Hellyer

Arthur Hellyer

Arthur George Lee Hellyer was a well-known British horticulturalist.He wrote many influential gardening books, and was editor of Amateur Gardening for 21 years. He was a founder of the Hardy Plant Society....

 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 allotment

Allotment (gardening)

An allotment garden, often called simply an allotment, is a plot of land made available for individual, non-professional gardening. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families...

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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.