Flowers
This Insta florist’s secrets to beautiful, simple arrangements (it’s all down to choosing the right vase)
Florist Sarah Statham reveals the secret to creating striking natural floral displays: adapting to the shape of your vessel.
These flamboyant shrubs are long-flowering and change subtly over the season - here's how to grow hydrangea paniculata
Add a sense of grandeur to your garden with these deciduous shrubs that flower in late summer and early autumn.
A meadow-inspired pot display from Jo Thompson for late-summer
From cool pastels and foliage to hot colours, designer Jo Thompson creates a stylish container combination
Growing and cultivating sanguisorba
With tight, bright burrs on wiry stems, long-flowering sanguisorbas offer a haze of gauzy colour
When the whole garden is flagging, these tough but cheery, sun-loving, go-with-everything flowers will brighten up late summer
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
The best plants for August
As summer reaches its peak Tom Brown, the head gardener at West Dean Gardens, picks his favourite August flowers. Photographs Jason Ingram
These 76 resilient plants chosen by world-leading experts are the ultimate selection for a changing climate
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
Are we growing lemon trees instead of apples now? The new climate-change conundrum for gardeners
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
Butter yellow may be the colour of the season, but yellow flowers give some people the ick. What you need is pale yellow - here are 15 lovely options that will light up a border
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
You need this uber-versatile plant that will grow in any soil, sun or shade, and flowers for ages
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
Roses: Our ultimate jargon and myth-busting guide and 49 of the best ones to grow
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
How to grow Persicaria
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.
Dianthus: how to grow and propagate
Plant expert John Hoyland explains how to grow dianthus, where to plant it and when to take dianthus cuttings.
Brilliant blue flowers to plant in your garden
The best plants for July
Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower
21 brilliant ‘bombproof’ plants: the impossible-to-kill, fuss-free, low-maintenance performers that the experts rely on
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
It's time to sow your biennials - here are 21 great flowers you'll love, chosen by Sissinghurst's head gardener
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.
The best summer flowers to plant
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.
Want a vase full of home-grown roses? Here are the best roses to grow for cutting with tips from expert rose growers
Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.
These delicate, single-flowered roses are perfect for a natural feel in the garden - here's which to grow
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.
How to grow salvias - the ultimate guide to growing this versatile and colourful flower and the best types to use
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
The best drought tolerant plants to grow to combat drier summers and warmer weather
Looking to add more drought tolerant plants to your garden? Annie Godfrey of Daisy Roots nursery recommends some of the best drought tolerant plants.
The skiver’s list of top easy-to-grow, low to no-maintenance plants for time-poor and lazy gardeners
Want a lovely garden full of beautiful plants but not to have to spend lots of time growing, pruning, watering and mollycoddling them? These are the best low-care plants if you don’t have time for (or interest in) gardening
Gaudy, traditional bedding plants are out - these longer-lasting, wildlife-friendly alternatives are what you need in your garden
Three gardening experts recommend 17 of the best contemporary bedding plants, which pollinators will love, for stunning displays