Planting ideas

Planting ideas

Get inspiration for your garden and discover which plants will work best and where

The 10 weeds you need to worry about in your garden - and the 10 you can happily leave be

Short on time or just hate weeding? Here are the weeds most gardeners dread finding, plus some you should probably allow to grow
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Brilliant blue flowers to plant in your garden

The best plants for July

Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower
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Weird and wonderful: you might think these amazing fly-eating plants are too exotic for your garden, but you’d be wrong

With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy.
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21 brilliant ‘bombproof’ plants: the impossible-to-kill, fuss-free, low-maintenance performers that the experts rely on

Discover the indestructible varieties that designers, head gardeners and flower growers rely on: the top easy-to-grow, long-lived, pest- and disease-free performers for your garden
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It's time to sow your biennials - here are 21 great flowers you'll love, chosen by Sissinghurst's head gardener

Biennials bring colour to spring and summer borders - and are easy to grow from seed. Sissinghurst head gardener Troy Scott-Smith shows how to grow biennials and the best flowers to choose.
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How to grow salvias - the ultimate guide to growing this versatile and colourful flower and the best types to use

These popular, high-impact summer flowers come in a wide range of forms and colours and are designer favourites as well as magnets for bees and butterflies
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As we hit a heatwave in the UK, here's how we should be gardening in soaring temperatures

As the hot weather in the UK continues, we ask three horticultural experts of the realities of drought on gardens and how we should be adapting the way we garden to hotter, drier conditions in the summer, and wetter, warmer conditions in the winter
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Gaudy, traditional bedding plants are out - these longer-lasting, wildlife-friendly alternatives are what you need in your garden

Three gardening experts recommend 17 of the best contemporary bedding plants, which pollinators will love, for stunning displays
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An exotic meadow container pot evoking the walled garden at Benton End

Inspired by the gardens at Benton End, garden maker James Horner suggests a fresh container arrangement to capture the essence of summer
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The ultimate list of bee-friendly plants: 56 beautiful plants that will make your garden buzz

Create a buzz in your garden by adding the plants that bees love best.
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Simple to grow, look great and smell amazing - plus the bees love them. Lavender is something you need in the garden and here are our favourites

Fragrant, drought tolerant and easy to grow, lavenders are popular plants that suit many different styles of garden. Discover more with our lavender expert grow guide.
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Wondering what jobs to get done this summer? Let Sissinghurst's expert head gardener guide you

Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith guides us through the jobs that he and his team do in summer.
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10 of the best and most beautiful garden plants for butterflies that you will love too

Make your garden attractive to vital pollinators with these suggestions of plants that butterflies love
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Want more dahlias for free? Multiply your flowers fast with this little-known technique

Tim Stretton, head of gardens at Mounton House, explains exactly how to take cuttings from dahlia plants so you can increase the number of dahlias you have in your garden this summer
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Beautiful vintage container planting ideas for early summer from Cedric Morris’ famous garden at Benton End

Garden maker James Horner uses lush foliage and delicate coloured blooms for a fresh container combination at Benton End in Suffolk, the former home of artist-plantsman Cedric Morris
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June flowers to plant

As late spring turns to early summer, Keith Wiley and Andrea Brunsendorf pick the flowers that will look best in June
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Slug-proof veg: the ultimate list of 17 vegetables that slugs and snails won’t eat

Struggling with slugs eating your crops? Here are 17 varieties of veg that they won't touch.
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Want a stunning summer border? Here are four beautiful flower combinations with lots of wow-factor that you can plant in your garden

Four plant combinations to add colour and drama to your summer borders with inspiration from Malverleys head gardener Mat Reese
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These spectacular fragrant flowers will thrive in dry conditions and they look great as cut blooms for your vase too

Despite their reputation for being hard to grow and infuriatingly easy to kill, Eremurus, or foxtail lilies, are spectacular and desirable plants for sunny borders or gravel gardens with well-drained soil
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Want to stop your veg from being munched? Planting these flowers nearby could save it from bugs and slugs

Ever wondered how companion planting might help your vegetables and deter pests? Here expert grower Matthew Biggs breaks down the companion planting myths and explains how the system works
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Clematis montana aren't always rampant: if you're looking for a small climber, then these less vigorous varieties could be what you need

Although known as vigorous plants, Clematis montana can be also be medium sized or even compact. Here are some recommended varieties from the National Collection at the garden of National Collection holder, Val Le Neville-Parry.
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It's time to start thinking about planting your dahlia tubers - here's how to grow and care for these striking flowers for a colourful summer display

Dahlias are a must in the summer and autumn garden. Here's everything you need to know about how to grow dahlias, plant tubers and how to take cuttings.
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The best elderflowers to grow and harvest for cordial (which also look really good in the garden)

Elders are easy-to-grow shrubs and small trees, best known for the cordial and wine made from their starry flowers and berries, but with newer cultivars now offering excellent ornamental qualities for the garden too
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