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Waxwing eating a rowan berry

Plants for birds: Top plants to feed the birds

Tulipa ‘Estella Rijnveld’ One of the best of the Parrot tulips, the petals exuberantly ruffled in red and white. Raised in the Netherlands in 1954 by Dr de Mol and named after his wife. Flowers in May. 55cm. RHS H6, USDA 3a-8b.

Gardens to visit

Best tulips to plant: 24 from Belcombe Court

Phlebodium aureum or fern

Houseplants How to look after the blue star fern

Seed box

Mother’s Day Garden Gifts

Narcissus Barrii Conspicuous

When is the official first day of spring?

Beth works on a cloche at Claverton Cloches © Jason Ingram

Undercover artists: reinventing the garden cloche

T. ‘Royal Sovereign’ (1809) and T. ‘Dom Pedro’ (1911)

Spectacular rare tulips grown by designer Arne Maynard

Les Journées des Plantes de Chantilly France’s leading garden event

Gardening events and shows for 2022

Alice Pattullo's illustration for March's kitchen garden

Gardening jobs for March

Crocus angustifolius

Crocuses or croci: what is the plural of crocus?

Pinus Sylvestris (Scots Pine)

Experts’ choice: top trees for the garden

Plant container display with Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier'

Tulip and euphorbia planting container display

Alice Vincent © Camilla Jorvad

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2018: Queen Elizabeth speaks with Ian Limmer on the Peter Beales Roases exhibition as she attends the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Royalty at Chelsea Flower Show through the years

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2019: Queen Elizabeth and William, the Duke of Cambridge are given a tour by Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, of her RHS Back to Nature Garden, which she designed with landscape architects Andree Davies and Adam White of Davies White Landscape Architects at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

What the Queen told me

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