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My favourite tree for National Tree Week

Log pile at Ham House and Garden

Winter gardening jobs: December is a busy, optimistic month

December flowers: Camellia sasanqua 'Crimson King'

December flowers: the best plants for December

Olivia Chapple: co-founder of charity Horatio’s Garden

Gardens open on Boxing Day

Six houses for sale with beautiful gardens

LOCKDOWN GARDENING

Variety of flowers seed packet

Our favourite seed suppliers

Garden centres to remain open over lockdown

Are garden centres open in second lockdown?

Gardening in lockdown

Gardening you can do in lockdown

Editor's highlights

Derek Jarman's garden at Prospect Cottage

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Cut flower: Dahlia 'Hillcrest Kismet'

The best cut flowers to grow in the garden

Posh Shed Company: Gardens Illustrated competition

Win a shed from The Posh Shed Company – worth £1,820*

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Christmas

Gardening gifts: Niwaki Tool Roll

55 of the best gardening gifts for Christmas

Our round up of Christmas gifts we love

PLAN YOUR CHRISTMAS WITH GARDENS ILLUSTRATED

Kissing ball: a Victorian Christmas kissing ball

Have a herbal Christmas with a Victorian Kissing Ball

Christmas wrapping paper: making Christmas wrapping paper

Festive Make your own wrapping paper with natural materials

Kew Gardens Christmas 2019

Kew Gardens Christmas 2020: everything you need to know

Gardens open on Boxing Day

Festive Make your own Christmas wreath

14 of the best Christmas light shows

Home cooking recipes

RECIPES USING FRESH INGREDIENTS FROM THE GARDEN

Quince recipe: baked quince

The best quince recipes

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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Winter

PLANTS AND MORE FOR THE SEASON

Coconut fibre mat

The best winter protection for your garden

Winter flowering plants: Iris unguicularis ‘Peloponnese Snow’

Perfect winter flowers to grow

Keeping chickens in the garden

Feathered friends: keeping chickens in your garden

Winter walk: Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire.

Gardens to visit

The most inspiring winter garden walks

Crab apple Malus Evereste

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

Sassafras albidum sapling, a great autumn tree

Which autumn trees to have in your garden

See more winter ideas

Container displays

POTS OF STYLE FOR YOUR GARDEN

Stylish houseplants

House plants Creating the perfect stylish indoor display

Pots of Style: a planting plan with salvia

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

A container planting display with Elymus magellanicus from Ben Preston

Container inspiration A pot plant display with Elymus magellanicus

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

Winter flowering Clematis ‘Fragrant Oberon’

Perfect winter flowering clematis

Helleborus orientalis 'Yellow Lady'

How to grow hellebores for colour over winter

Winter flowering plants: Iris unguicularis ‘Peloponnese Snow’

Perfect winter flowers to grow

House plants under light in winter

House plants How not to kill your indoor plants this winter

How to grow your own mushrooms

100 beautiful and useful plants

N. bowdenii ‘Vesta K’

Nerines and amarines and how to grow them

Sanguisorba 'Blackthorne'

Growing and cultivating sanguisorba

Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns

Propagate ferns

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

Rowe's at Priory Gardens: cutting garden in Yorkshire

A stunning flower farm in a medieval priory

Emma Burrill's garden in East Sussex

Inspiring gardens Emma Burrill's Modernist garden in East Sussex

Helen O’Donnell garden, Vermont

Helen O’Donnell’s plant-filled design for a Vermont garden

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House plants

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GROWING INDOORS

Ceropegia: string of hearts plant

House plants The string of hearts

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

Great Dixter

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

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

See more garden advice

Kit

OUR PICK OF THE BEST GARDENING TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES

Bede Wellington

The best wellington boots for walking and gardening

Chase & Wonder 'The Botanist' scented candle

Best botanical candles for Christmas

Wagon

Kit for autumn tidying

Kent & Stowe Stainless Steel Digging Spade

Shovels and garden spades: nine of the best

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