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From a compost festival to an exhibition displaying a 1500s gardening manual, there are plenty of fascinating events to attend this summer.

Here how to buy the new book from Gardens Illustrated - The New Beautiful

Everything you need to know about RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2025

Discover the indestructible varieties that designers, head gardeners and flower growers rely on: the top easy-to-grow, long-lived, pest- and disease-free performers for your garden

The traditional English country garden gets a contemporary update at this renovated cottage in the Cotswolds, discovers Petra Hoyer Millar.

Love gardening but short on time, or looking for ways to make your garden easier to manage? We’ve got smart tips from the experts on how to have a lovely garden with less work

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

Planning a get together this summer? We've got all the garden party essentials, ideas and recipes to throw the perfect outdoor bash.

Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.

These popular, high-impact summer flowers come in a wide range of forms and colours and are designer favourites as well as magnets for bees and butterflies

For this Suffolk garden, designer Colm Joseph has created spaces that link the geometry of the new-build house to the surrounding vistas of fields and trees beyond

Why worry about not finding time to sit and smell the roses, asks Nigel Slater, if you get more pleasure from deadheading them?

Water companies sometimes impose hosepipe bans when temperatures soar. Here we tell you everything you need to know about hosepipe bans and whether there are any in the UK right now

With England seeing drier and drier summers, we investigate the impact of a potential national drought being declared and what this would mean for our gardens

Want a lovely garden full of beautiful plants but not to have to spend lots of time growing, pruning, watering and mollycoddling them? These are the best low-care plants if you don’t have time for (or interest in) gardening

Love them or hate them, garden makeover shows help aspiring home gardeners get started. But why are opinions split?

Three gardening experts recommend 17 of the best contemporary bedding plants, which pollinators will love, for stunning displays

Expert natural swimming pond designer Sarah Murch explains her top tips on how to create a pool you'll love

Designer Charlotte Harris suggests smart, interesting ways to introduce water and use it to completely transform a garden

There's a big market for second hand greenhouses, but is it worth the bother? Here's everything you need to know about getting one

Sloped gardens offer drama, depth, and beauty. Learn expert design tips to transform challenging terrain into a standout landscape

We round up a selection of some of the best Father's Day gardening gifts this year

Inspired by the gardens at Benton End, garden maker James Horner suggests a fresh container arrangement to capture the essence of summer

Create a buzz in your garden by adding the plants that bees love best.