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    3. Plant profiles

    Plant profiles

    Trees

    Big or small, a tree offers shelter, shade and year-round interest
    Coppicing hazels
    Trees

    Why coppicing makes sense

    The best wood for wood burning stoves: Cherry wood
    Plants

    The best wood for burning on wood burning stoves and fires

    If you follow a strict pruning regime for your wisteria, you will be rewarded with showy pendant racemes of fragrant flowers.
    How to...

    How to prune climbing plants

    How to cut when you prune
    How to...

    The principles of pruning

    Apple tree 'Discovery' and when to prune apple trees
    Trees

    How to prune fruit trees

    Crab apple Malus Evereste
    Trees

    The best crab apple trees for colour and form

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    Shrubs

    Climbers, scented flowers and stand-out foliage for gardens of all sizes
    Photo showing the large purple flowers of a buddleia tree growing in the wild (Latin name: Buddleja davidii). This is also known as a 'butterfly bush', as the extremely fragrant flowers are often covered in colourful peacock butterflies.
    How to...

    The best way to prune shrubs

    Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’
    Winter

    Winter interest Top roses for rosehips

    NIGELLA DAMASCENA
    Plants

    80 beautiful and sustainable plants

    Taxus baccata (Yew), a perfect hedging plant
    Plants

    Hedging: 30 top plants for a hedge

    Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'
    Shrubs

    The best daphne for year-round colour and scent

    Ilex x aquipernyi 'Dragon Lady'
    Winter

    Holly bushes to grow for berries and evergreen leaves

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    Flowers

    From bulbs to grasses and everything in between
    Pruning roses
    Advice

    A guide to pruning roses

    Echinacea 'Aloha'
    Summer

    The best plants for July

    best climbing plants for gardens - Solanum crispum album
    Plants

    30 of the best climbing plants for 2022

    Dahlia
    Gardens

    Pruning perennial flowers and grasses

    Verbascum ‘Raspberry Ripple’
    Summer

    Verbascum: how to sow, grow and propagate

    Fuchsia ‘Alice Hoffman’
    Plants

    The best fuchsias for your garden

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    Autumn colour

    Warm tones and bright berries for Autumn colour
    Handful of compost with earthworms, used for mulching
    How to...

    What is mulching and how to mulch

    Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns
    How to...

    How to Propagate ferns

    Hebe 'Blush Elegance'
    Winter

    How to grow hebes

    See all Autumn plants

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