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The best plants for July

Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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The ultimate list of bee-friendly plants: 56 beautiful plants that will make your garden buzz

Create a buzz in your garden by adding the plants that bees love best.
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Simple to grow, look great and smell amazing - plus the bees love them. Lavender is something you need in the garden and here are our favourites

Fragrant, drought tolerant and easy to grow, lavenders are popular plants that suit many different styles of garden. Discover more with our lavender expert grow guide.
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Wondering what jobs to get done this summer? Let Sissinghurst's expert head gardener guide you

Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith guides us through the jobs that he and his team do in summer.
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10 of the best and most beautiful garden plants for butterflies that you will love too

Make your garden attractive to vital pollinators with these suggestions of plants that butterflies love
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Don't bother deadheading and don't use rose spray: myth busting rose tips from expert Michael Marriott

Do you really need to deadhead your roses? Here, leading rosarian Michael Marriott busts six myths we all thought we knew about roses
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Want your roses to ramble romantically over a tall obelisk? Here's how to do it so it looks jaw-dropping

Want to know how to make your roses ramble perfectly up a tall obelisk or structure? We have expert tips from garden designer Graham Lloyd Brunt
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Want more dahlias for free? Multiply your flowers fast with this little-known technique

Tim Stretton, head of gardens at Mounton House, explains exactly how to take cuttings from dahlia plants so you can increase the number of dahlias you have in your garden this summer
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Beautiful vintage container planting ideas for early summer from Cedric Morris’ famous garden at Benton End

Garden maker James Horner uses lush foliage and delicate coloured blooms for a fresh container combination at Benton End in Suffolk, the former home of artist-plantsman Cedric Morris
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These spectacular fragrant flowers will thrive in dry conditions and they look great as cut blooms for your vase too

Despite their reputation for being hard to grow and infuriatingly easy to kill, Eremurus, or foxtail lilies, are spectacular and desirable plants for sunny borders or gravel gardens with well-drained soil
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Garden designers choose their favourite dahlias - the top blooms to feature over the summer

Three garden designers and landscape architects – Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Ula Maria and Jo Thompson – choose their favourite dahlias for late-season colour.
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New rose named after Catherine, Princess of Wales

A new coral-pink variety of rose from Harkness Roses has been named as a tribute to Catherine, Princess of Wales
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These 'thug' plants will take over your garden, so avoid planting them to prevent problems later on

Add these plants to your garden and you might regret it, as they have the potential to take over
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Clematis montana aren't always rampant: if you're looking for a small climber, then these less vigorous varieties could be what you need

Although known as vigorous plants, Clematis montana can be also be medium sized or even compact. Here are some recommended varieties from the National Collection at the garden of National Collection holder, Val Le Neville-Parry.
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The jewel-like Corydalis is perfect for dainty colour in the garden: here's how to care for and plant it plus the best types to grow

This varied genus of mostly diminutive species offers delicate, tubular flowers and graceful fern-like foliage.
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