Plant profiles

Trees

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

Sassafras albidum sapling, a great autumn tree

Which autumn trees to have in your garden

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

Growing apples: tips for how to grow apples

Apple tree 'Discovery' and when to prune apple trees

How to prune fruit trees

Crab apple Malus Evereste

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

How to espalier

How to train fruit trees

Sorbus intermedia

Sorbus tree: how to grow and which to plant

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Shrubs

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

Taxus baccata (Yew), a perfect hedging plant

30 of the best plants for a hedge

Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'

The best daphne for year-round colour and scent

Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'

100 beautiful and useful plants

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief'

The best flowering dogwoods

Acaena microphylla ‘Kupferteppich’

The best plants for November

Cotinus ‘Grace’

Cotinus smoke trees to grow for autumn colour

Flowers

From bulbs to grasses and everything in between

Sanguisorba 'Blackthorne'

Growing and cultivating sanguisorba

Mixed borders at Gravetye Manor garden

Planting at Gravetye: the borders

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)

Convallaria majalis or Lily of the valley and how it is grown

Cyclamen coum Roseum

Cyclamen: how to care for and propagate

N. bowdenii ‘Vesta K’

Nerines and amarines and how to grow them

Verbascum 'Spica'

The Verbascum you need for the garden

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Autumn colour

Warm tones and bright berries for Autumn colour

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Gardens to visit

Our choice of autumn plant fairs

Redlove Odysso

Astonishing apples for Apple Day

Ornamental grasses: Calamagrostis emodensis

Designers choose the best ornamental grasses

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