Summer

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firedance'

How to grow Persicaria

Salvia Pink Lips (Jeremy), Salvia x jamensis 'Pink Lips'

Recommendations for Salvias to grow in the garden

Euphorbia rigida

Drought tolerant plants

Chris and Toby Marchant's garden

Naturalistic planting in an Oxfordshire garden

August flowers: Gladiolus 'Sylvia'

The best plants for August

Chrysanthemum 'Granatapfel'

In praise of the chrysanthemum

Agastache 'Black Adder'. Photo: Jason Ingram

The best plants for butterflies

Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks: how to grow alcea

Perpetual flowering carnations

Discover the world of the perpetual carnation

Salvia 'Amistead'

The best bee friendly plants

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.

Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

Echinacea 'Aloha'

The best plants for July

Flower meadow

7 meadow seed mix packs to create a wildlife haven

Verbascum ‘Raspberry Ripple’

Verbascum: how to sow, grow and propagate

Watering can

When to water plants in hot weather