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Gothic plants for Halloween: these are the plants that could help to spookify your garden
Discover some of the blackest plants, just in time for Halloween
Make scary apples for Apple Day and Halloween
Whether it's for Apple Day on October 21 or Halloween, these scary apples are an excellent thing to create with the whole family. Photographs Andrew Montgomery
The weirdest, scariest pumpkins and gourds to grow and how to grow them
Clark Lawrence, an American living in the heart of Italy’s pumpkin province, loves growing different cultivars of pumpkins and ornamental gourds for their sweet flavours and fabulous looks.
Discover Austria's world of pumpkin oil
In a sunny corner of southern Austria, pumpkins are grown for the delicious and fragrant oil yielded by their seeds, an oil now celebrated for its healthy properties. Words by Jonathan Gibbon
Pumpkin seeds | What to do with your pumpkin innards
Carving isn't the only thing you could be doing with your pumpkin this Halloween. Here's a few other suggestions on how not to waste your pumpkin
The best pumpkin patches to visit for Halloween 2026
Tick off this autumn bucket list essential with a visit to one of these brilliant pumpkin patches for Halloween
How a Norwegian gardener created a stunning garden on top of barren rock
On an island off the Norwegian coast, Mariann Gundersen has magically transformed a once-barren rock into an extraordinary prairie-style garden for her summer house
Climate change means we can now grow a wider range of nuts in the UK - here's how
Nuts are coming back into fashion for gardens, as a warming climate is widening the species available for the UK and bringing bumper crops
We transformed our garden to host a glorious September wedding – here are the plants we chose
Designer Isabel Bannerman details how she and her husband Julian prepared their new garden at Ashington Manor for a September peak
"One sniff and I am 8 years old again": how Nigel Slater created his dream orchard for delicious summer desserts
After losing a bumper crop last year,Nigel Slater may be rowing back on his orchard ambitions, but an apple tree can still transport him back to his childhood
I've saved hundreds of pounds on fruit and veg by growing my own – and you can too, says garden designer Jack Wallington
Growing fruit and veg doesn’t have to mean giving up on beauty. You can have a designer garden and eat it, says Jack Wallington
"A lot of people hope things will go back to how they were in the Nineties. They won't": Caitlin Moran on how to become more hopeful
Journalist Caitlin Moran on her new book and what she’d really love to ask Paul McCartney
Is your garden on a slope? See how one designer came up with a cunning solution
Tapping into the wild spirit of this urban garden, Lulu Roper-Caldbeck cleverly managed a sharp change in level with a bank of layered, immersive planting
"It's terrifying to most people": meet the artist who frequently sets fire to his work
Artist Nic Webb is pushing the boundaries of wood sculpture using tools such as blowtorches on his ambitious pieces
This designer transformed his tiny terraced garden into a gorgeous garden escape on a budget
For his own experimental Bristol garden, designer Harry Holding saved on budget using paint and existing materials
'It was derelict buildings and brambles when we arrived' - now it's an experimental plant nursery leading the way
Grower-designer Tom Nielsen’s new nursery on an old 17th-century farmstead in Somerset is all about resilient plants
How do you transform an overlooked city garden into a lush oasis? This Amsterdam garden is a source of design inspo
Dutch designer Carolien Barkman has used changes of level and lush, immersive planting to bring this small city plot to life
‘Sometimes things just die. It’s not your fault’
Chef and market gardener Sam Cooper on his new seasonal guide to fermentation, courgette gluts and his love of orchards
Wondering if your tiny garden could squeeze in a sauna, cold plunge and a meadow? Here's how one designer managed it
Designer Alexandra Noble has made space for a meadow, a sauna and a cold plunge in this small suburban garden
'Water is liquid gold' says designer of this stunning climate-resilient Australian garden
This habitat-rich garden filled with native plants and its own billabong was designed by Phillip Johnson to borrow the surrounding landscape.
Garden events and festivals to go to this year: all the best tours, workshops, exhibitions and more for 2026
All the big names in one place. Here's our guide to the gardening calendar's biggest and best gardening events for the year ahead
