Flowers

From an early venture saving wedding bouquets, Keith Kralik and Rachel Parri of Flower Press Studio have turned pressed flowers into fine art

Looking to create a charming cottage garden feel in your garden? Marcus Eyles picks the plants you need

Three professional cut-flower growers recommend the plants they couldn’t live without – all reliable, easy to grow, robust and beautiful in the vase

Florist Sarah Statham reveals the secret to creating striking natural floral displays: adapting to the shape of your vessel.

Add a sense of grandeur to your garden with these deciduous shrubs that flower in late summer and early autumn.

From cool pastels and foliage to hot colours, designer Jo Thompson creates a stylish container combination

With tight, bright burrs on wiry stems, long-flowering sanguisorbas offer a haze of gauzy colour

These tough, sun-loving blooms combine well with grasses and other late-flowering perennials and look great in prairie-style and modern cottage-garden schemes

As summer reaches its peak Tom Brown, the head gardener at West Dean Gardens, picks his favourite August flowers. Photographs Jason Ingram

Five expert designers and plantspeople choose their top garden plants that are adaptable, beautiful and sure to grow happily whatever the weather throws at us

As our climate changes, gardeners are finding their plant palette is shifting, with some old favourites no longer happy and opportunities to try something new

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

With delicate blooms in soft colours, new cultivars of these adaptable, long-flowering beauties will suit many different planting styles and conditions, and sun or shade

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

Persicaria are versatile perennials with late season, brightly coloured flower spikes on hearty green plants from July through to late October. Plantsman Rory Dusoir shares his advice on how to grow persicaria and where to plant it.

Plant expert John Hoyland explains how to grow dianthus, where to plant it and when to take dianthus cuttings.

Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower

Discover the indestructible varieties that designers, head gardeners and flower growers rely on: the top easy-to-grow, long-lived, pest- and disease-free performers for your garden

Biennials bring colour to spring and summer borders - and are easy to grow from seed. Sissinghurst head gardener Troy Scott-Smith shows how to grow biennials and the best flowers to choose.

Make sure you've got the perfect blooms in the garden for summer. Tom Brown, head gardener and tutor at West Dean College, recommends his favourites.

Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.

The modest blooms of single-flowered roses have a simplicity and perfection all of their own, and are highly attractive to pollinators. Head gardener Mat Reese chooses 13 of the best. Photographs Jason Ingram.

These popular, high-impact summer flowers come in a wide range of forms and colours and are designer favourites as well as magnets for bees and butterflies