Plants

Persicaria are versatile perennials with late season, brightly coloured flower spikes on hearty green plants from July through to late October. Plantsman Rory Dusoir shares his advice on how to grow persicaria and where to plant it.

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

Three gardening experts recommend 17 of the best contemporary bedding plants, which pollinators will love, for stunning displays

Loved for their showy spheres, alliums have long been stalwarts of late spring, but now new introductions are extending the party through summer. Our summer-flowering allium grow guide explains the best varieties to grow, how to care for them and where to plant.

English bluebells are one of the highlights of spring. Here's how to grow them in your own garden – and how to differentiate between English and Spanish bluebells.

With spring firmly in the air, designer and plantsman Dan Pearson chooses his favourite plants from his garden Hillside, in Somerset, that bring him joy in spring

Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower

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.

Add these plants to your garden and you might regret it, as they have the potential to take over

Sansevieria, or the snake plant, is an almost indestructible houseplant that is creeping out of the shadows to take centre stage. Illustration Patrick Morgan

Maddie Bailey of Forest London shares advice on the best houseplants to grow in awkward areas.

With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy.

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

Inspired by the gardens at Benton End, garden maker James Horner suggests a fresh container arrangement to capture the essence of summer

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

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

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

The modest blooms of single-flowered roses have a simplicity and perfection all of their own, and are highly attractive to pollinators. Head gardener Mat Reese chooses 13 of the best. Photographs Jason Ingram.

Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith guides us through the jobs that he and his team do in summer.

A new coral-pink variety of rose from Harkness Roses has been named as a tribute to Catherine, Princess of Wales

Make your garden attractive to vital pollinators with these suggestions of plants that butterflies love

Struggling with slugs eating your crops? Here are 17 varieties of veg that they won't touch.

Make sure you've got the perfect blooms in the garden for summer. Tom Brown, head gardener and tutor at West Dean College, recommends his favourites.

Looking to add more drought tolerant plants to your garden? Annie Godfrey of Daisy Roots nursery recommends some of the best drought tolerant plants.

Want a lovely garden full of beautiful plants but not to have to spend lots of time growing, pruning, watering and mollycoddling them? These are the best low-care plants if you don’t have time for (or interest in) gardening

Yellow magnolias can be an attractive alternative. Here you'll find growing advice for yellow magnolia trees and shrubs, the best magnolias to grow and where to buy them.

Ornamental Japanese cherry blossom trees are one of the delights of spring, with their clouds of pink or white blooms.

These hard-working plants provide several seasons of interest in your garden through flowers, fruit, foliage, bark and even spring shoots

Their dainty flowers with swept-back petals and often mottled leaves make erythroniums one of the highlights of a woodland garden.

Garden designer Adam Hunt recommends his favourite bulbs for colour almost all year round.

Learn how to prune dogwood to ensure that it produces plenty of colourful stems for winter.