do you subscribe to or buy any gardening mags?

just wondering if anyone had a favorite gardening magazine they buy or subscribe to? there are so many out there!

I used to subscribe to Organic Gardening for years and it was a great magazine in my opinion but I cancelled when the magazine went through some changes and became nothing more than a pamphlet.

Garden Gate is my favorite.

I adore Country Living Gardens and an online newsletter Front range Living.
Mobi

My favorite is Fine Gardening, also like Garden Gate. Take several others. For a long time I subscribed to Sunset, western version. Actually had all the Sunsets from 1950 to 1994. Thats when I sold my other place and move up here on the hill. There were 10 apple boxes of Sunsets that i tried to sell at auction, but most didn't sell and had to go to dump, couldn't even give them away. I learned a lot from those mags, but now Sunset has so much advertising . I didn't take it for 10 years but finally resubscribed. DonnaS

I second that on Garden Gate. I am also a member of National Home Gardening Club and they have a magazine for members called Gardening How-To. I really like that one too.

I don't subscribe to any (I do get Sunset and Better Homes and Gardens, but that is not exclusively gardening) but I buy on the newstand all the Country Living gardening publications and will often buy Fine Gardening or any other gardening mag that has country style gardens in it. I also will buy the british editions of the country living gardening type mags when I'm in a store that sells them. I LOVE the british editions of all the home and garden mags.

I just love looking at all the gardening magazines. I just pretend my garden looks like all of the ones in the mag. As long as I don't look out the window, I'm okay. ;)

Gwen

I dropped Garden Gate. The writing was repetitive and seemed like it was all written by the same person.

Fine Gardening, Chigoland Gardening, Horticulture and Mother Earth News subscriptions are paid ahead for many years.

i get the one from NHGC and garden design and then my daylily region ones thats it for me!

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Garden Gate, Backyard Living and Garden Design

ooo, oooo I don't know how I forgot 'Garden Design' (which just came in the mail today).
Current sub to this one runs through Sep 2011. Great mag and I love the quotes on the bottoms of the pages.

Pacific Horticulture is my favorite. I wish it would come more often. I have saved all mine from the last 20 plus years or so and look at them frequently. My interests have changed enough over the years to make reading it seem like the magazine just came. I also take Horticulture, Fine Gardening and Sunset. This last issue of Horticulture was terrific. The magazines seem to go up and down in quality. Sunset in particular has had some real rough spots. It used to be the best, then it was awful and now it is better again. The Lanes knew what they were doing, it has never been quite as good since they sold it it Time. It is hard for Eastern-based magazines to have much that is relevant to mild winter areas but they do try. I figure that if you get one or two good ideas out an issue it is worthwhile.

Chuck, is Pacific Horticulture and regional spinoff of Horticulture? Also, is this the only mag you've saved and where do you save them? I have discussions with myself several times a year about keeping my favorites!!

It is not a spinoff, but the magazine for several regional horticulture organizations. The magazines are not very large and only come four times a year, so there are not that many. I keep them in the hard plastic magazine holders in the book case.

Garden Gate, Horticulture, Midwest Living (not exclusively gardening but that why I subscribe) and I just signed up for Backyard Living. I also pick up the special editions of BHG and Family Circle that are gardening specials (aka Spring 2005, Summer 2004, etc).

I also got DH to give me as a Christmas gift last year the entire library of back issues of GardenGate. Those are good reads in the dead of winter when I'm bored with the same dog-eared garden catalogs.