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Trees

Big or small, a tree offers shelter, shade and year-round interest
Jon Stokes
Meet the gardeners

Jon Stokes on why we all need trees in our lives

Pinus Sylvestris (Scots Pine)
Trees

My favourite tree for National Tree Week

Quince: what is it and how to plant quince
Trees

Everything you need to know about quince

The best wood for wood burning stoves: Cherry wood
Plants

The best firewood for wood burning stoves

Sassafras albidum sapling, a great autumn tree
Trees

Which autumn trees to have in your garden

Close up of gardener holding four cooking apples close to his chest
Gardens

Growing apples: tips for how to grow apples

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Shrubs

Climbers, scented flowers and stand-out foliage for gardens of all sizes
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November flowers: Acaena microphylla ‘Kupferteppich’
Plants

The best plants for November

Cotinus ‘Grace’
Shrubs

Cotinus smoke trees to grow for autumn colour

Taxus baccata (Yew), a perfect hedging plant
Plants

30 of the best plants for a hedge

Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'
Shrubs

The best daphne for year-round colour and scent

Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'
Planting ideas

100 beautiful and useful plants

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Flowers

From bulbs to grasses and everything in between
Erythronium revolutum
Flowers

Erythroniums: how to care for, plant and the best garden erythroniums

Hours to make, a lifetime to enjoy
News

Lego’s Botanical Collection lets you put together your perfect bouquet

Roses in the kitchen garden at Ham House
How to...

January gardening jobs: time to prune and cut for function and form

Begonia 'Red Tempest'
Autumn

Begonias: the best for your garden and how to plant

December flowers: Camellia sasanqua 'Crimson King'
Winter

December flowers: the best plants for December

Winter flowering plants: Iris unguicularis ‘Peloponnese Snow’
Winter

Perfect winter flowers to grow

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Autumn colour

Warm tones and bright berries for Autumn colour
Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns
Plants

The best ferns for your garden

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

How to Propagate ferns

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firedance'
Plants

Plant profile How to grow Persicaria

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