Summer

Summer

Garden designers choose their favourite dahlias - the top blooms to feature over the summer

Three garden designers and landscape architects – Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Ula Maria and Jo Thompson – choose their favourite dahlias for late-season colour.
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Four key tips to help you grow stunning dahlias in your garden from the head of the National Dahlia Collection

Horticultural lecturer Louise Danks and rescuer of the National Dahlia Collection explains four key tips to growing dahlias
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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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Benton irises: how to choose and grow them

Designer Dan Pearson has long loved the beautiful irises bred by the artist Cedric Morris, and recommends some of the best currently available.
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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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Want chic bearded irises in your garden? Here's everything you need to know about caring for them - and the most lovely to grow

Discover everything you need to know about bearded iris from the late expert grower and owner of Woottens of Wenhaston Michael Loftus
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The best drought tolerant plants to grow to combat drier summers and warmer weather

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

In the heatwave, make sure you're watering your plants at the right time of day
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These beautiful summery flowers are perfect pops of colour in the garden - and they are easy to grow

Flowering from late spring into summer, these varied hardy perennials are growing in popularity. Here's our expert guide to growing them. Words by Naomi Slade.
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Peonies that can last for 100 years: the remarkable plants that can come with a high price tag

At Primrose Hall Nursery Alec White specialises in breeding rare and desirable intersectional peonies – plants that can last for 100 years.
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The best cosmos to grow

Cosmos are as brilliant in the garden as they are in the vase. Plant expert Graham Rice chooses his favourite cosmos varieties to grow, and gives advice on sowing and growing them. Photographs by Jason Ingram
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Don't have room for seed pots and trays? Try this easy way of sowing seeds with these 21 beautiful flowers

Sowing seeds where you want them to flower is an easy, bother-free way to bring colour to your garden. Here, three experts recommend their favourite flowers for growing direct
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Jewel-like spring flowers in brilliant shades for those awkward cracks and crevices in your garden

These brightly coloured, early spring-flowering alpine plants are perfect for rock and crevice gardens or tumbling down a stone wall.
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21 brilliant bulbs to plant that will give you colour in every season

Garden designer Adam Hunt recommends his favourite bulbs for colour almost all year round.
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These plants will make your garden look good all year: 30 plants and flowers for year-round colour and interest

These hard-working plants provide several seasons of interest in your garden through flowers, fruit, foliage, bark and even spring shoots
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It's time to plant summer flowering bulbs - here's our guide on exactly when to plant them and which to grow

Spring is the ideal time to plant summer-flowering bulbs. We asked four experts to recommend their favourites
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Easy to grow and care for – why you need to grow heuchera for year-round colour

With their striking foliage in a range of bold colours, heucheras, and the associated heucherellas and tiarellas, are low-maintenance plants that offer year-round colour.
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You don't find poppies and cornflowers in a real meadow - here's why they are so rare and what a meadow actually is

A brief history of the evolution of the meadow, from the last ice age until the present day – and why poppies and corncockle do not a meadow make…
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54 brilliant purple flowers for the garden

Discover 55 of the most beautiful purple flowering plants for the garden, chosen by expert horticulturalists and growers
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A well-behaved alternative to bamboo, these grass-like evergreens are great year-round

Defying easy categorisation, restios are evergreen plants that offer eye-catching details, attractive stems and grow rapidly in spring
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