Planting ideas

Designer Katie Guillebaud channels the ebullience of the season with this nature-inspired container idea

Spanish designer Fernando Martos explains why he combines the beauty of Spain's arid landscape with English planting ideas in his dry garden designs. If we're considering climate change, his approach could be a useful one for us to take note of

There are plenty of colourful plants that will ensure your garden remains fresh and bright throughout summer into autumn. Here are ten plants for late-summer colour, recommended by plantswoman Marina Christopher

Discover how to recreate this vibrant planting container, which will look at its best in May

Four plant combinations to add colour and drama to your summer borders with inspiration from Malverleys head gardener Mat Reese

Create a gorgeous early summer container display with designer Katie Guillebaud's easy-to-recreate pot recipe.

As the hot weather in the UK continues, we ask three horticultural experts how we should be adapting the way we garden to hotter, drier conditions

Here are 19 gorgeous spring planting combinations, put together by garden designers.

Fancy growing something different this season? Top plant sellers and nurseries told us which brand-new, recently introduced or simply fresh-to-their-lists plants they are excited about this year

Looking to elevate your planting schemes? Nick Bailey pinpoints nine types of plant you never knew you needed, from gap fillers and bridge builders to drama queens

Bring bright, sunny colour to your late-winter garden with the earliest flowers of the year, which will spread to create golden carpets under trees.

Head gardener Benjamin Pope is keeping busy this month in preparation for spring. Here are his suggestions of what you could be planting through the month of January

Looking for a Christmas gift for a gardener after the last Christmas post delivery date? We've got the best gardening membership and subscription gifts you can still buy and gift in time for Christmas

The best December flowers and foliage from winter interest plants chosen for structure, colour and texture in the garden. Photographs Jason Ingram

Put the work into your garden now and you'll reap the rewards come spring. Head gardener Benjamin William Pope and garden writer Aaron Bertelsen explain what you can sow in November

There's plenty of ways to find colour and contrast in the garden on November days. Here Tom Brown and Fleur van Zonneveld pick the best plants for November. Photographs Jason Ingram and Maayke de Ridder

Formerly known as sedums, hylotelephiums are drought-tolerant perennials that offer long-lasting flowers in late summer and autumn, and are adored by bees and butterflies

As our first book is released, Piet Oudolf looks at how gardens have evolved in recent decades and what makes a Gardens Illustrated-worthy garden today

Looking to create a charming cottage garden feel in your garden? Marcus Eyles picks the plants you need

From cool pastels and foliage to hot colours, designer Jo Thompson creates a stylish container combination

With tight, bright burrs on wiry stems, long-flowering sanguisorbas offer a haze of gauzy colour

These tough, sun-loving blooms combine well with grasses and other late-flowering perennials and look great in prairie-style and modern cottage-garden schemes

As summer reaches its peak Tom Brown, the head gardener at West Dean Gardens, picks his favourite August flowers. Photographs Jason Ingram

A selection of planting ideas from the Filippis’ Le Jardin Sec in France, which specialises in planting for drought.