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Emma Burrill's garden in East Sussex

Inspiring gardens Emma Burrill's Modernist garden in East Sussex

Pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin seeds What to do with your pumpkin innards

Chelsea Flower Show: Chelsea pensioners

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Festive Make your own Christmas wreath

How to grow hebes

Feathered friends: keeping chickens in your garden

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Christmas light shows: Bedgebury 2020

14 of the best Christmas light shows

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Boutonnieres: how to make button holes

Boutonniere: how to make buttonhole flowers

Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith's courtyard garden with Genista aetnensis, Euphorbia seguieriana subs. niciana, and Salvia nemorosa 'Amethyst'

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Halloween

SOME SPOOKY SUGGESTIONS FOR PUMPKIN FUN

Scary apples for halloween and apple day

Make scary apples for Halloween

Allium atropurpureum

Gothic plants for Halloween

Growing pumpkins: our guide to planting pumpkins

How to grow pumpkins and squashes

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Home cooking recipes

RECIPES USING FRESH INGREDIENTS FROM THE GARDEN

Spiced pumpkin pasties

Spiced pumpkin pasties recipe

Recipe for parsnip and apple muffins

Spiced parsnip and apple muffins recipe

Aaron Bertelsen making pastry at Great Dixter

The best pumpkin pie

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Autumn

PLANTS AND MORE FOR THE SEASON

Burgon and Ball long handled planter

Garden Equipment

Which long-handled bulb planters to buy

Sassafras albidum sapling, a great autumn tree

Which autumn trees to have in your garden

Cotinus ‘Grace’

Cotinus smoke trees to grow for autumn colour

Villa Pisani Scalabrin - Tulips

When to plant bulbs

Crab apple Malus Evereste

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

Autumn garden

Gardens to visit

The best autumn gardens to visit

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Container displays

POTS OF STYLE FOR YOUR GARDEN

An autumnal container display using Dryopteris erythrosora

Pots of style An autumn container display using Euonymus alatus

Pots of Style: a planting plan with salvia

Pots of style A warm container planting display using Salvia ‘Royal Bumble’

Ben Preston's succulent container display

Dark Mediterranean planting display with Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’

A woodland container display by Ben Preston

Pots of Style A container display with herb-paris and an orchid

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Perfect plants for now

PLANTING INSPIRATION

Helianthus decapetalus Triomphe de Gand

Autumn plants for a rich colour palette

Helleborus orientalis 'Yellow Lady'

How to grow hellebores for colour over winter

Anemone 'Blushing Swan'

Anemones: how to grow them and which to plant

House plants under light in winter

House plants How not to kill your indoor plants this winter

Perfect perennial plants

100 beautiful and useful plants

N. bowdenii ‘Vesta K’

Nerines and amarines and how to grow them

Sanguisorba 'Blackthorne'

Growing and cultivating sanguisorba

Hebe 'Blush Elegance'

How to grow hebes

Quince: what is it and how to plant quince

Everything you need to know about quince

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Inspiring gardens

THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S OUTDOOR SPACES

Caleb Davis' landscaped garden in Maine

Working with nature to create a low-input rocky garden in Maine

View to house from summer border

Bright perennials and sub-tropical shrubs in a Scottish garden

Tree ferns underplanted with Hakonechloa in Adam Sykes London Garden

Exotic planting brings Californian style to Adam Sykes’s London garden

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House plants

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GROWING INDOORS

Prayer plants illustration

Houseplants How to care for and grow prayer plants

Gesneriads, or African violets

Caring for African violets, Smithianthas and plants from the Gesneriads family

Sansevieria houseplant, drawn by Patrick Morgan

How to care for and propagate sansevieria

Indoor plant pot

Best indoor pots to buy

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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

White Garden at Hidcote

Using time in garden design

Garden design courses

How to build a garden office

Growing a garden that lasts

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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

The Botany of Gin book

Gardening books

Review The Botany of Gin by Chris Thorogood

Wagon

Kit for autumn tidying

Mini Kew antique wash wicker garden trug, The Basket Company

The 10 best garden trugs

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