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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

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