Sorrel Everton

Bring a splash of bright colour to your home or garden by trying easy-to-grow hyacinths. Grow them indoors and you'll have cheering flowers in the winter. In the garden they are a sure sign of spring.

If you're looking for inspiration for this year's crop of flowers, herbs and vegetables, take a look at our recommended seed suppliers in 2024

From majestic estates to romantic country cottages, Sorrel Everton chooses her favourite hotels with gardens, including B&Bs and self-catering getaways

For fast-growing, seasonal colour in your garden that won’t cost a fortune and is fun to grow, one of the easiest things to do is sow some annuals from seed

Chilli powder, black pepper, garlic powder or grated moth balls: find out what worked best in a trial to keep squirrels off tulip bulbs at Hever Castle, led by head gardener Neil Miller.

Squirrels can ruin tulip displays. We asked a range of experts for their advice on stopping squirrels digging up bulb displays.

Creating a garden that is both beautiful but also ecologically balanced and teeming with wildlife should be every gardener’s aim, but gardening sustainably starts with sourcing the plants and products for our gardens. Here we celebrate those nurseries leading the way

Make sure you're prepared for bulb-planting season with a good quality, easy-to-use bulb planter. Here's our selection of nine of the best with long handles in 2024.

Gardens Illustrated deputy editor Sorrel Everton heads to Hampton Court Flower Show to look at the ideas and inspiration at the gardens and beyond in 2023

As a gardener for the Community Grow project at RHS Garden Bridgewater, Faye wants everyone to get involved in growing something. Portrait Jason Ingram

In her centenary year, we share a past podcast featuring Alan Titchmarsh talking to Beth Chatto in a public conversation, first aired on her 50th anniversary of being at her iconic Beth Chatto's Gardens

Some of our most familiar plants hail from the remarkable and traditional grasslands of southern Transylvania in Romania. Find out more about their heritage and the amazing plants. Words Dr John Akeroyd, photographs Richard Bloom

RHS Grow has just launched their new gardening and plant identifier app, but does it work? We test it and find out

Kew’s first female climbing arborist since the 1980s, Cecily Withall is part of a team that maintains the botanical garden’s impressive collection of 12,000 trees. Portrait Jason Ingram