Shady gardens

Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns

The best ferns for your garden

Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'

The best daphne for year-round colour and scent

Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns

How to Propagate ferns

Erica x darleyensis 'Aurelie Bregeon'

The best winter-flowering heathers

The deep beds are crammed with a complex tapestry of perennial interest, with an emphasis on foliage that ranges from the fresh, grassy growth of Hakonechloa macra to the deep-plum leaves of Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’.

Planting for a dry and shady urban garden

best climbing plants for gardens - Solanum crispum album

30 of the best climbing plants

Fern Alder's woodland garden

Woodland garden inspiration: Fern Alder’s carefully planted space

Helleborus orientalis 'Yellow Lady'

How to grow hellebores

Alasdair Cameron's small garden with green foliage in London

Tips on how to use green palette foliage plants

Helianthus decapetalus Triomphe de Gand

Autumn plants for a rich colour palette

Erigeron karvinskianus

Ideal plants for ground cover

Container display using a mass-planting of daffodils

Inspiration and advice for planting bulbs in pots

Rodgersia ‘Herkules’

The best plants for shade

Enkoji is a Shingon Buddhist temple, famous for its pond garden and stone garden

What is a Japanese Garden?

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief'

The best flowering dogwoods