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Seasonal highlights

Inspiration and planting ideas for the gardening year. Plan ahead or discover new plants and projects to consider now

Autumn

Eye-catching trees, planting bulbs and cutting back
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Plants

How to achieve moods and texture in the garden

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Garden Equipment

Best leaf blower 2021 – buyer’s guide and 10 popular options

The powder-coated steel furniture is all from the Palissade range designed for Hay.
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Cool, calm and connected – a small garden in Kent

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Winter

Flashes of colour, striking seed heads and structural planting
Erythronium revolutum
Flowers

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

Roses in the kitchen garden at Ham House
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January gardening jobs: time to prune and cut for function and form

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Planting ideas

Create the perfect hallway house plant display

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Spring

Brighter days, seed sowing and blossom
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Plants

The best places to buy seeds online

Benton End in Suffolk, where the artist and gardener Cedric Morris and his partner Arthur Lett-Haines moved in 1940, is where Morris bred many of his beautiful and painterly coloured bearded irises
Plants

Benton irises: how to choose and grow them

Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns
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How to Propagate ferns

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Summer

Long, warm days and a garden in full bloom
Mary Keen’s greenhouse is cleverly positioned to form part of the circuit around the garden; you can admire her collection of pelargoniums by walking right through it. The path here is lined with jewel-coloured dahlias and the tall, luminous-blue Salvia patens ‘Guanajuato’ emerging from clouds of Erigeron annuus.
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Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

Pelargonium ‘Berkswell Harmony’. A highly distinctive, two-toned cultivar with burgundy upper and pink lower petals and intricate claret ‘feathering’ (fine lines). It’s tall, and needs staking. Aim for three to four leaders initially with constant pinching out to create a full bush that eventually supports itself. 60cm. RHS H1C†.
Plants

Angel pelargoniums: choosing and growing the best Angel pelargoniums

Perpetual Carnations
Plants

Discover the world of the perpetual carnation

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Plants

Plant hardiness ratings explained

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Plants

The best places to buy seeds online

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