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The best places to pick your own flowers
Now is the season for filling your vases with freshly cut flowers to brighten the home. We recommend the best flower farms and gardens in the UK that invite you to pick your own blooms.
9 simple fixes to elevate your outdoor space fast (without spending a fortune)
These unbeatable ideas from top gardeners and designers will transform your garden into a stylish, plant-filled haven in no time
Brilliant blue flowers to plant in your garden
The best gardens to visit in July
Nurseryman Keith Wiley recommends the best gardens to visit in July to see their plants in full bloom
The key jobs you need to get done in the garden in July
July is mainly a month of maintenance, of watering, feeding and pruning, as well as a time to pause and take pleasure in your achievements. Here's what to do in the garden this month.
What to plant in July
Head gardener Benjamin Pope and gardener cook Aaron Bertselsen explain what you should be planting in July
The best plants for July
Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower
The best places to pick your own sunflowers near you
Fancy picking some sunny blooms to brighten up your home? Here's our selection of the best PYO sunflower farms you can visit this summer
‘I have become obsessed. I’m always trying new things’ - the maverick Essex gardener who does things his own way
In his experimental garden in south Essex, John Little is prioritising habitat over planting, without compromising on aesthetics
Hampton Court Flower Show 2025 - all the information you need about next week and why it won't be back until 2027
Everything you need to know about RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2025
21 brilliant ‘bombproof’ plants: the impossible-to-kill, fuss-free, low-maintenance performers that the experts rely on
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
It's time to sow your biennials - here are 21 great flowers you'll love, chosen by Sissinghurst's head gardener
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.
The best summer flowers to plant
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.
This is how you make a modern cottage garden: inspiring contemporary update tips from a revamped Cotswolds hideaway
The traditional English country garden gets a contemporary update at this renovated cottage in the Cotswolds, discovers Petra Hoyer Millar.
Spend less time and effort gardening with these pro gardener hacks for a beautiful low-maintenance space
Love gardening but short on time, or looking for ways to make your garden easier to manage? We’ve got smart tips from the experts on how to have a lovely garden with less work
Get Glast-home-bury ready: 25+ items to upgrade any garden party
Planning a get together this summer? We've got all the garden party essentials, ideas and recipes to throw the perfect outdoor bash.
Want a vase full of home-grown roses? Here are the best roses to grow for cutting with tips from expert rose growers
Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.
These delicate, single-flowered roses are perfect for a natural feel in the garden - here's which to grow
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.
How to grow salvias - the ultimate guide to growing this versatile and colourful flower and the best types to use
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
This clever country design is a masterclass in making a garden to soften that just-finished feel
For this Suffolk garden, designer Colm Joseph has created spaces that link the geometry of the new-build house to
the surrounding vistas of fields and trees beyond
I’m too busy deadheading my roses to stop and smell them, says Nigel Slater
Why worry about not finding time to sit and smell the roses, asks Nigel Slater, if you get more pleasure from deadheading them?
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.
Is there a hosepipe ban in the UK? Here's everything you need to know
Water companies sometimes impose hosepipe bans when temperatures soar. Here we tell you everything you need to know about hosepipe bans and whether there are any in the UK right now
As we hit a heatwave in the UK, here's how we should be gardening in soaring temperatures
As the hot weather in the UK continues, we ask three horticultural experts of the realities of drought on gardens and how we should be adapting the way we garden to hotter, drier conditions in the summer, and wetter, warmer conditions in the winter