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Plant profiles

Trees

Big or small, a tree offers shelter, shade and year-round interest
Crab apple Malus Evereste
Trees

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans Compacta’
Christmas

Alternative plants for a potted Christmas tree: expert’s choice

noble fir 007
Christmas

How to choose, care for and decorate your Christmas tree

Pinus Sylvestris (Scots Pine)
Trees

Experts’ choice: top trees for the garden

The best wood for wood burning stoves: Cherry wood
Plants

The best wood for burning on wood burning stoves and fires

Silver birch
Trees

Best birch trees for your garden

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Shrubs

Climbers, scented flowers and stand-out foliage for gardens of all sizes
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

Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’
Winter

Winter interest Top roses for rosehips

Ilex x aquipernyi 'Dragon Lady'
Winter

Holly bushes to grow for berries and evergreen leaves

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Arnold Promise'
Winter

Hamamelis: the best witch hazel to grow

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'
Plants

Best plants for winter colour in December

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Flowers

From bulbs to grasses and everything in between
Roses in the kitchen garden at Ham House
How to...

How to prune roses and yew this winter

Cyclamen coum Roseum
Plants

Cyclamen: how to care for and propagate

Erica x darleyensis 'Aurelie Bregeon'
Plants

The best winter-flowering heathers

Emma Bridgewater's Factory with Arthur Parkinson
Pots

Arthur Parkinson’s favourite cut flowers to grow in pots

Blackland House
Gardens

Polly Nicholson’s tulip-filled walled garden

Rosa gallica ‘Versicolor’ (rosa mundi)
Summer

Eight stunning roses from a designer's garden

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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

Lobelia x speciosa ‘Red Demon’. A new, red cultivar with very large flowers that is not yet widely available. Barry Clarke admits it is not the most vigorous but deems it an improvement on the ever popular L. cardinalis ‘Queen Victoria’. 1m.
Flowers

Lobelia: choosing and growing the best lobelia

November gardening jobs
Advice

November gardening jobs

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