Summer

PLANTS FOR SUMMER

Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'

100 beautiful plants and flowers

Echinacea 'Roze Rood'

Perfect perennial plants

Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks: how to grow alcea

How to grow Persicaria

Recommendations for Salvias to grow in the garden

Drought tolerant plants

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Autumn

PLANTS FOR AUTUMN

Symphyotrichum ericoides ‘Cinderella’

The best small-flowered asters to grow

Sanguisorba 'Blackthorne'

Growing and cultivating sanguisorba

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Spring

PLANTS FOR SPRING

Matthiola incana 'Lucinda Red'

Colour Red flowers for the garden

Agastache 'Black Adder'. Photo: Jason Ingram

The best plants for butterflies

Thalictrum delavayi var. mucronatum

The best varieties of thalictrum and how to grow

How to Propagate ferns

How to grow alliums and when to plant them

Lupins: how to grow and where to plant them

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Bulbs

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BULBS

Burgon & Ball garden trowel

Garden Equipment

Garden trowels: the best ones to buy in 2022

NIGELLA DAMASCENA

80 beautiful and sustainable plants

Blue narcissus

World’s first blue daffodil finally flowers

Fritillaria meleagris

Everything you need to know about Fritillaria

Container displays

POTS OF STYLE FOR YOUR GARDEN

Container planting with Ben Preston

Summer container planting with pink Salvia curviflora

A tropical planting display

Tropical planting display in a Victorian bird cage

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A succulent pot houseplant display for winter

Sarah Price dahlia container

Creative containers for late summer

Inspiration

ADVICE AND IDEAS ON PLANTS TO GROW

T. ‘Royal Sovereign’ (1809) and T. ‘Dom Pedro’ (1911)

Spectacular rare tulips grown by designer Arne Maynard

A small copper butterfly taking a drink of nectar from a thistle head flower, summer days.

How to attract wildlife into the garden

Garden Designer Jinny Blom's own garden in Brockley London, June 2015 UK

10 ways to improve your garden

26 of the best scented flowers

10 recommended plants for late-summer colour

Asparagus fern: great house plant companions

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Planting ideas

EXPERT ADVICE ON STUNNING BORDER DISPLAYS AND MORE

An illustration showing the plants used in a bold design for a late summer border by gardener Andrea Brusendorf

Late summer planting plan using tried and tested plants

Kirsty Ramage late season container display

Late summer planting combination for pots

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Combinations for later-summer planting

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