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The Big Butterfly Count takes place 18 July to 10 August 2025. Read our guide to how you can take part in this important citizen science project, and how to attract more butterflies to your garden

You might think you hate yellow in the garden - but have you considered pale yellow? This versatile shade combines beautifully with many other colours and can make a border sing

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

Much as he loves eating in his garden, Nigel Slater blows hot and cold about cooking en plein air

Tresco Abbey Gardens Scholar Holly Doyle loves the exotic plants she now cares for, and can lose herself for hours exploring other gardens

Soil stores carbon, soaks up rainwater and is at the core of biodiversity. We need to stop calling it dirt, says Helen Elks-Smith

Discover everything you need to know about the new RHS Wentworth Woodhouse show and which gardens won medals

Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count our expert Butterfly Conservation explains ten different butterflies you can expect to see in your garden

The Wildlife Trusts recommend ways to plant to best support butterflies and moths and their caterpillars.

Designer Matthew Wilson chose colourful, scented, drought-resilient planting for this zero-irrigation hilltop garden in Surrey

With summers predicted to get hotter, and water becoming a precious resource, everyone is talking about drought-tolerant plants. But are they the answer in the UK and what should we know about planting and caring for them? We ask plant experts and landscape designers for their advice

What all those rose terms really mean and the pointless rose-growing rules you can totally break, plus the experts’ picks of top roses to grow

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

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

Landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith has worked closely with architect Ptolemy Dean to create a garden that unifies a 15th-century house and barn

From her Derbyshire home, artist Sophie Cook brings her trained horticultural eye to the Victorian art of cyanotype photography

Now is the season for filling your vases with freshly cut flowers to brighten the home. We recommend the best flower farms and gardens in the UK that invite you to pick your own blooms.

Short on time or just hate weeding? Here are the weeds most gardeners dread finding, plus some you should probably allow to grow

These unbeatable ideas from top gardeners and designers will transform your garden into a stylish, plant-filled haven in no time

July is mainly a month of maintenance, of watering, feeding and pruning, as well as a time to pause and take pleasure in your achievements. Here's what to do in the garden this month.

Fancy picking some sunny blooms to brighten up your home? Here's our selection of the best PYO sunflower farms you can visit this summer

With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy.

In his experimental garden in south Essex, John Little is prioritising habitat over planting, without compromising on aesthetics

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