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RECIPES USING FRESH INGREDIENTS FROM THE GARDEN

Pumpkins

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

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Fennel, Aubergine and Artichoke Caponata

Fennel, Aubergine and Artichoke Caponata

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Tomato tart

This month's recipe: Tomato Tart

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Autumn

PLANTS AND MORE FOR THE SEASON

All about flowers

How to achieve moods and texture in the garden

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Garden Equipment

Best leaf blower 2021 – buyer’s guide and 10 popular options

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Tulbaghia violacea. The most widely cultivated member of the family with flowerheads made up of up to 20 pale, pinkish-mauve flowers. This is a vigorous species that produces masses of sweetly scented flowers between June and September. The foliage is narrow and grass-like. 40cm. AGM*. RHS H3, USDA 7a-10b†.

Tulbaghia: choosing and growing the best tulbaghia

October in the garden

Eight October gardening jobs

Variety of flowers seed packet

The best places to buy seeds online

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Container displays

POTS OF STYLE FOR YOUR GARDEN

Seed Pantry

Best plant gift subscriptions

Houseplants in the hallway

Create the perfect hallway house plant display

A winter succulents display with houseleek

Create an easy-to-grow miniature houseleek landscape

Winter succulents

Discover winter-to-spring planting combinations

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Perfect plants for now

PLANTING INSPIRATION

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Pelargonium ‘Berkswell Harmony’. A highly distinctive, two-toned cultivar with burgundy upper and pink lower petals and intricate claret ‘feathering’ (fine lines). It’s tall, and needs staking. Aim for three to four leaders initially with constant pinching out to create a full bush that eventually supports itself. 60cm. RHS H1C†.

Angel pelargoniums: choosing and growing the best Angel pelargoniums

A hand holding soil

The compost guide: best compost for potting and more

Hedge cutting

How to trim hedges

Inside Sissinghurst’s Mediterranean-inspired Delos garden

Discover the world of the perpetual carnation

Three bouquets in vases and three Bloom & Wild subscription boxes.

Best flower subscriptions

Bloombox Club

Best places to buy plants online for the garden and home

Clematis x durandii. A much-loved hybrid between C. ‘Jackmanii’ and C. integrifolia with rich, saucer-shaped, indigo-blue flowers with deep midribs. The semi-nodding flowers, with beautifully contrasting pale-yellow anthers, appear from June until the autumn. 1.5m. AGM. RHS H6, USDA 5a-9b.

Herbaceous Clematis: choosing and growing the best herbaceous clematis

In this mixed House Border, the
red flowers of Rosa ‘Florence
Mary Morse’ bring early colour alongside the white sprays of Persicaria x fennica ‘Johanniswolke’. The tall, slender annual corncockles are woven through the border plants, and, along with alliums and bronze fennel, help to unify the plantings
and create a naturalistic scene.

Summer planting at Malverleys: borders, layering and planning ahead

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Inspiring gardens

THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S OUTDOOR SPACES

A long, gravel path follows the line of an old granite wall and a campana urn provides a focal point and full stop. The planting is a rich mixture of bedding, perennials and shrubs. Trees ‘borrowed’ from neighbouring gardens frame the space and link it with the landscape.

Mixing exotics and old favourites in a gardener’s garden

Mary Keen’s greenhouse is cleverly positioned to form part of the circuit around the garden; you can admire her collection of pelargoniums by walking right through it. The path here is lined with jewel-coloured dahlias and the tall, luminous-blue Salvia patens ‘Guanajuato’ emerging from clouds of Erigeron annuus.

Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

Prolific design duo Harris Bugg have created an exquisite slice of urban meadow in a wildlife-friendly garden in north London. Words Kendra Wilson. Photography Jason Ingram.

Explore a wildlife-friendly meets urban London garden

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House plants

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GROWING INDOORS

Pots of Style with Ben Preston and succulents

Pots of style A stunning succulent display for indoor and out

Potted History book by Catherine Horwood

Gardening books

Review How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes, by Catherine Horwood

Stylish houseplants

House plants Creating the perfect stylish indoor display

Ceropegia: string of hearts plant

House plants The string of hearts

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GARDEN EVENTS AND THINGS TO DO

Find out what events, open gardens and more are happening this month

Garden design

DESIGN IDEAS FOR ALL YOUR GARDEN NEEDS

Rob Handy's forest garden in Somerset

How to make a forest garden

A metal gate designed by Cameron Mackintosh for his home in Somerset

Hard landscaping

Using metal in the garden

Great Dixter

Control of nature: how gardening is about shaping the natural world

Garden design courses

How to build a garden office

How to grow a sustainable garden

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Advice

WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT

Handful of compost with earthworms, used for mulching

How to mulch

Clean your rusty tools with wire wool

How to clean rusty tools

Learn how to lay a hedge using traditional craftsmanship and hedge laying skills.

How to lay a hedge

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Kit

OUR PICK OF THE BEST GARDENING TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES

Bede Wellington

The best wellington boots for walking and gardening

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9 of the best bird feeders

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9 of the best splitting axes

Kent & Stowe Stainless Steel Digging Spade

Shovels and garden spades: nine of the best

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