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Firm Hand Duck Apron

The best long aprons to wear in the garden

On Tropic. Designed by Freddie Strickland. Young Designer Garden. RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2021.

RHS Tatton Park Flower Show 2021: Young Designer of the Year winner revealed

The UK’s champion of guerilla gardening, Richard Reynolds, began greening the streets around his London home in 2004, and is the author of On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries

What is guerrilla gardening?

Herbaceous Clematis: choosing and growing the best herbaceous clematis

Inside Gardens Illustrated magazine – July 2021

The best pizza ovens for the garden

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Home cooking recipes

RECIPES USING FRESH INGREDIENTS FROM THE GARDEN

Courgette soup

Courgette Soup

28 mins Serves 3–4

Palermo artichokes

Tasty stuffed artichokes with peas and broad beans

50 mins Serves 8

Beetroot tops

Beetroot top and feta tart recipe

1 h 15 mins Serves 8

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Summer

PLANTS AND MORE FOR THE SEASON

Corydalis flexuosa ‘China Blue’

Corydalis: how to care for, plant and the best garden Corydalis

The deep beds are crammed with a complex tapestry of perennial interest, with an emphasis on foliage that ranges from the fresh, grassy growth of Hakonechloa macra to the deep-plum leaves of Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’.

Planting for a dry and shady urban garden

Keeping chickens in the garden

Feathered friends: keeping chickens in your garden

By placing the furniture at the rear of the space, Stefano gave his clients a new perspective on the garden. A large Cornus kousa var. chinensis behind the sofa provides privacy and a sense of enclosure, complemented by the branches of an overhanging magnolia.

New planting ideas for small gardens

Crab apple Malus Evereste

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

Scilla bithynica flowers in March and early April, spreads very rapidly to create a soft-blue wash , ideal under deciduous trees and shrubs where there is space for it to spread. 15cm. AGM*. RHS H6, USDA 6a-8b†.

Scilla: how to care for, plant and the best garden Scilla

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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

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

Helleborus orientalis 'Yellow Lady'

How to grow hellebores for colour over winter

Winter flowering Clematis ‘Fragrant Oberon’

Perfect winter flowering clematis

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 plants and flowers

Begonia 'Red Tempest'

Begonias: the best for your garden and how to plant

Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns

The best ferns for your garden

Create an edible bouquet

How to create a beautiful edible bouquet

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

At Upper Sydling in Dorset the landscape beyond is as much a part of the garden as the flowers within it. Here in the cutting garden, the view is framed by a floriferous mass of rambling roses, including the pretty pink Rosa ‘May Queen’, which entwine their flowering tentacles through, around and over the balustrade of ageing green oak.

Creating the perfect romantic rose garden

Page Dickey's garden in Connecticut

Garden writer Page Dickey’s new Connecticut garden

Olivier Filippi's dry garden in France

Reader offer: Private Gardens of Provence holiday

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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

Gesneriads, or African violets

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

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

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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

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Kit

OUR PICK OF THE BEST GARDENING TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES

Bede Wellington

The best wellington boots for walking and gardening

Birds hanging from a garden bird feeder with anti squirrel cage

9 of the best bird feeders

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Garden Equipment

9 of the best splitting axes

Kent & Stowe Stainless Steel Digging Spade

Shovels and garden spades: nine of the best

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