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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.

These unbeatable ideas from top gardeners and designers will transform your garden into a stylish, plant-filled haven in no time

Nurseryman Keith Wiley recommends the best gardens to visit in July to see their plants in full bloom

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.

Head gardener Benjamin Pope and gardener cook Aaron Bertselsen explain what you should be planting in July

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

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

In his experimental garden in south Essex, John Little is prioritising habitat over planting, without compromising on aesthetics

Everything you need to know about RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2025

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

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.

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.

The traditional English country garden gets a contemporary update at this renovated cottage in the Cotswolds, discovers Petra Hoyer Millar.

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

Planning a get together this summer? We've got all the garden party essentials, ideas and recipes to throw the perfect outdoor bash.

Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.

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.

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

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

Why worry about not finding time to sit and smell the roses, asks Nigel Slater, if you get more pleasure from deadheading them?

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

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 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