Plants
Plants, how to plant, what to plant
These are the best plants to keep colour going in the garden this month - according to an expert
Rosy Hardy’s October choices include a vibrant chrysanthemum and a sparkling Guernsey lily.
Bonfire night is fun, but don't forget to protect your pets and garden wildlife
Our tips on keeping garden wildlife and pets safe on Guy Fawkes night
10 plants that thrive beneath trees - according to an expert designer
Designer Ashleigh Aylett shares her favourite perennials to grow in a woodland garden.
POV: You’ve inherited an historic English hall with two moats and incredible gardens – now what?
Once home to garden designer Xa Tollemache, Helmingham Hall is now under the care of a new generation of Tollemaches and is as glorious as ever, especially in winter when its bones are laid bare. Words: Chris Young, Photographs: Richard Bloom
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The weirdest, scariest pumpkins and gourds to grow and how to grow them
Clark Lawrence, an American living in the heart of Italy’s pumpkin province, loves growing different cultivars of pumpkins and ornamental gourds for their sweet flavours and fabulous looks.
Pumpkin seed oil: where it is made and pumpkin oil recipes
In a sunny corner of southern Austria, pumpkins are grown for the delicious and fragrant oil yielded by their seeds, an oil now celebrated for its healthy properties. Words by Jonathan Gibbon
Climate change means we can now grow a wider range of nuts in the UK - here's how
Nuts are coming back into fashion for gardens, as a warming climate is widening the species available for the UK and bringing bumper crops
Autumn
Gothic plants for Halloween: these are the plants that could help to spookify your garden
Discover some of the blackest plants, just in time for Halloween
Bulbs
Sarah Raven's advice for planting spring bulbs in harmonious colours this autumn
Sarah Raven on confidently choosing colours for the garden, including where to start and what to combine when planting bulbs this autumn.
Flowers
Fill your space with gorgeous scents by growing these versatile plants that will be happy in a sunny spot and in pots
Scented-leaf pelargoniums are a group of tender plants prized as much, if not more, for the scent of their leaves as for the beauty of their flowers
Discover the dahlias in Frances Palmer's Connecticut garden, where she turned her tennis court into a flower patch
A gardener as well as a renowned potter, dahlia devotee Frances Palmer uses her own blooms to adorn her vessels, grown in her imaginatively conceived Connecticut garden.
Discover the beautiful National Dahlia Collection and the person who helped save it from disappearing
The National Dahlia Collection has had several homes since its inception in the 1980s, and now, under the care of a dedicated dahlia aficionado, it has been rescued and relocated once more to a new site in Cornwall.House plants
Don’t get ripped off at the garden centre this summer! Here’s what to avoid buying now – and what to snap up
How to be a savvy shopper at the garden centre, with expert tips on what to avoid buying and what to snap up now.
Planting ideas
Get inspiration for your garden and discover which plants will work best and where
7 deadly garden plants that could kill your cat, and what to plant instead
Here are 7 plants that are potentially toxic to cats, and suggestions on what to grow instead.
Pots
Shrubs
Key plants from Piet Oudolf's field at Hauser and Wirth
The garden at the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Somerset is a planting installation by garden designer Piet Oudolf called the Oudolf Field. Here you'll find 24 of the key plants that make up the stunning perennial meadow garden.
Spring
Slug-proof veg: the ultimate list of 17 vegetables that slugs and snails won’t eat
Struggling with slugs eating your crops? Here are 17 varieties of veg that they won't touch.
Summer
These sculptural plants are drought tolerant, thrive in the heat and offer striking seedheads
Sun-loving Phlomis or Jerusalem sage are perfect for summer gardens as our climate heats up, and offer dried seedheads through winter
Trees
Fancy growing something different in 2026? Top plant sellers reveal the plants they're excited about this year
Fancy growing something different this season? Top plant sellers and nurseries told us which brand-new, recently introduced or simply fresh-to-their-lists plants they are excited about this year
Winter
