Low maintenance

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Reducing plastic in your garden and allotment

Crab apple Malus Evereste

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

Learn how to lay a hedge using traditional craftsmanship and hedge laying skills.

How to lay a hedge

Marian Boswell's layered border planting plan

Garden border ideas How to create a mixed border planting plan

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How to plant a terrarium

Paeonia lactiflora 'Hot Chocolate' c Jason Ingram

The best peonies for your garden

No-dig gardener Charles Dowding in his quarter-acre organic vegetable garden in Somerset

What is no dig gardening?

Green wall in Utrecht, designed by Erik Funneman. © Sietske de Vries

How to create a living wall

Peacock Trellis

Garden Equipment

The best climbing supports for 2022

Erica x darleyensis 'Aurelie Bregeon'

The best winter-flowering heathers

Huw Richards

National Allotment Week Huw Richards: How to make the most of your space

In a hilltop location, bands of Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Rosea’, Phlomis russeliana and self-seeded Lychnis coronaria support each other in a densely planted flower garden. The sun is setting through a Catalpa bignonioides and great plumes of Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ hide the parking area.

How to create a flower-filled hillside garden

Sassafras albidum sapling, a great autumn tree

Best trees for autumn colour

Alice Meacham gravel garden Dorset

An airy gravel garden around a modern house in Dorset

Container display using a mass-planting of daffodils

Inspiration and advice for planting bulbs in pots