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Garden water feature ideas: expert tips for using water in the garden

Water brings magic to the garden, says designer Matt Keightley, adding movement and sound to muffle unwelcome noise
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Make your own seed envelope

Follow our fold-by-fold guide to making your own origami seed envelope. Then save and collect your own seeds from this year's favourites, or swap with a gardening friend and be ready to sow next spring.
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The best gardening podcasts to listen to

Whether you want to learn how to keep your houseplants alive, discover more about the National Trust’s gardens or just enjoy some lively conversation while you’re at work in the potting shed, there’s a podcast for you. We recommend seven of the best.
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Where garden designers buy their plants

A garden is only as good as its plants. Here four renowned garden designers choose their favourite plant suppliers.
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Top designers choose the trends for 2020

Discover what leading garden designers believe will be the garden trends for 2020
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Tips for buying in garden centres

Garden and plant experts give their tips on what to look for when buying plants from garden centres and nurseries to ensure garden success
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Design solutions: Green roofs

Green roofs help make our cities more healthy and beautiful and welcome wildlife into our gardens. Below are points to consider before creating a green roof including what is a green roof? Plant selection and how to build a green roof.
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Book review: Dreamscapes by Claire Takacs

Gardens Illustrated reviews Dreamscapes by photographer Claire Takacs. This is a book of magical photography that captures some of the finest gardens in the world at their very best.
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Books for the ultimate horticultural library

After much discussion the award-winning design duo of Isabel and Julian Bannerman agree on their ultimate horticultural library. Find out which gardening books they feel they couldn't be without
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Online course: Planting the Piet Oudolf Way

If you love Piet Oudolf's garden design, this online course run by Learning with Experts in association with Gardens Illustrated is the perfect way to learn how to achieve his style in your own garden
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Our book of the month: Natural Selection by Dan Pearson

In Natural Selection, award-winning garden designer and journalist Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his columns for the Observer to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden.
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Noel Kingsbury's recommended hebes

Although increasingly popular, hebes have never really been in vogue, but their flexibilty and contemporary good looks suggest that could be about to change. Here we've picked out some of Noel Kingsbury's recommendations.
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