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Gardens to visit that will look lovely in April
Plantsman Keith Wiley recommends the best gardens to visit in April to see plants at their best.
"They're a massive nuisance" - but here is why you need to make friends with slugs and snails anyway
We asked experts and gardeners how they feel about slugs and snails and whether its realistic to ask gardeners to learn to live with them.
Gain a new skill: the 12 best online gardening courses to complete
Want to learn new gardening skills or even start a new career? There are now many online gardening courses you can study from the comfort of your own home. Here are 12 of the best.
Sissinghurst head gardener Troy Scott Smith on his vision for the garden
In 1930, the writer Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat husband Harold Nicolson bought an old farm in Kent and set about creating a garden that has become one of the best loved and most visited in the world. In the lead-up to the garden's centenary in 2030, head gardener Troy Scott Smith muses on the garden's enduring appeal - and outlines his vision for the garden. Images by John Campbell
I’m a different person from the woman who christened the soil by swinging champagne from a bottle: Alice Vincent reflects on her gardening year
In the last of her regular columns, Alice Vincent reflects on what she’s discovered over the course of documenting her gardening year, and why it’s now time to move on. Illustration Alice Pattullo.
How to plant ferns in a tree stump for a unique decoration and table centrepiece
Try your hand at this designs with flowers, foliage and a beautiful gnarly stump to celebrate the arrival of spring. Photographs Eva Nemeth
9 new plants you won't have heard of that you should grow this year
We asked expert plantspeople, designers and gardeners which brand new and recently introduced plants they are excited about growing this year
From egg rolling to flower wreaths: brilliant things to do at Easter in the garden
Celebrate Easter with these fun activities to do in the garden with your friends and family
Decorate eggs for Easter with botanical flower prints and natural dye
Writer and artist Sonya Patel Ellis explains how to combine tiny pressed leaves or flowers with natural dyes to create the prettiest eggs to celebrate spring
Wreaths are not just for Christmas: here's how to make an Easter wreath with beautiful spring flowers
Try your hand at an Easter wreath with flowers
and foliage to celebrate the arrival of spring. Words and styling Jacky Mills, photographs Éva Németh
The world's most extreme trees grow in the fiercest conditions. But should you plant them in your garden?
Faced with a warming climate, many gardeners are thinking carefully about resilient plants for their garden. But what about three of the world's most extreme trees?
Nigel Slater on the amazement he still feels at the arrival of flowering bulbs in spring
Our columnist Nigel Slater on the amazement he still feels at the arrival of flowering bulbs in spring.
The search for the Backhouse daffodils: a remarkable plant treasure hunt
Tracking down the Backhouse daffodils, narcissi bred by her ancestors, has become a lifetime’s work for Caroline Thomson. Words by horticulturalist Matthew Biggs. Photographs by Jason Ingram
Is it time to rein in tulip mania?
Alice Vincent wonders if it might be time to rein in our unsustainable pursuit of the perfect Instagrammable border
A spectacular spring garden in bloom: the trees, shrubs and early flowering perennials of Malverleys
Malverleys’ head gardener Matthew Reese explains the importance of trees, shrubs and early flowering perennials for creating a dynamic planting scheme to carry the garden throughout the year. Words Matthew Reese. Photographs Jason Ingram.
Create this exquisite Easter branch display using hazel and catkins to celebrate spring
Try your hand at an Easter branch display to celebrate the arrival of spring. Words and styling Jacky Mills, photographs Éva Németh
A beautiful spring garden around a Grade-I listed manor house in the Cotswolds
Tucked away in the countryside, this historic manor is homes to acres of lush gardens, diverse flowers and plants, and elegant design. Words by Stephanie Mahon. Photographs by Jason Ingram.
Women do inspiring work: we need their voices to be heard
On International Women's Day gardener, writer and presenter Rekha Mistry introduces the women who have inspired her and explains her route to horticulture
Women in gardening: key dates
We look back over the key points in gardening history, where women changed the scene
12 of the top female gardeners leading the way
Discover the inspiring women making waves in the horticultural industry and tending to remarkable gardens
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Can we really cope with allowing our gardens to go wilder?
Garden writer Andrew Timothy O’Brien asks just how far we might be prepared to go in relinquishing control over our gardens
What is rewilding?
Gardens Illustrated editor and wild gardens expert Stephanie Mahon gets to the bottom of what, exactly, rewilding means
Rewilding is good, but let's not forget that the garden is also great for wildlife
How wild is wild in the context of the average garden? And should we all be gardening differently to encourage more wildlife? Ken Thompson looks into the role gardens play as habitats for creatures great and small