Annuals

Make your own seed envelope

Follow our fold-by-fold guide to making your own origami seed envelope. Then save and collect your own seeds from this year's favourites, or swap with a gardening friend and be ready to sow next spring.
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30 of the best climbing plants for 2024

Choose from our selection of best climbing plants and add vertical interest to walls and trellises or allow to scramble over other plants in borders. Plantsman and garden designer Rory Dusoir gives his top recommendations.
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Polly Nicholson's tulip-filled walled garden

Around Blackland House in Wiltshire, Arne Maynard designed a series of walled gardens filled with plants of the highest pedigree for tulip grower Polly Nicholson
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The best flowering vegetables to grow

If you grow your own vegetables, why not leave a couple of them to produce flowers. Expert Peter Bauwens suggests those that make particularly gorgeous flowers, ideal for adding to bouquets
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Wildlife-friendly container display

If you want your garden to benefit pollinating insects like bees and butterflies this container display has been planted with plants that attract wildlife and suit a garden of any size. Designs by gardener Julia Wylie, who specialises in naturalistic planting schemes. Photographs by Andrew Montgomery
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Gypsophila: a gorgeous display with gypsophilia

Head gardener Matthew Reese creates an easy display for a pot that will take your breath away using the pink form of the dainty flowered Gypsophila. Photos Andrew Montgomery
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Try this tulips planting combination

As Parham House in West Sussex prepares to plants out bulbs for next spring, head gardener Tom Brown considers one of his favourite tulip combinations. Photograph Andrew Montgomery
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Sow your Silene 'Blue Angel' seeds NOW

UK readers will have received a packet of Silene coeli-rosa 'Blue Angel' with their May issue of the magazine. Seeds can be sown from March to early June - so there's still time
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Get set for British Flowers Week, 10-16 June 2019

British Flowers Week is a campaign to boost awareness of British grown flowers and get us buying more seasonal, locally grown cut flowers
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Competition: Win tickets to RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival with Hartley Botanic

Glasshouse and Greenhouse manufacturer Hartley Botanic is offering a pair of tickets to the preview night of RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival on 1 July.
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Remember to sow your Chinese forget-me-not

UK readers will have received a packet of Cynoglossum amabile with their May issue of the magazine. Why not sow them this weekend?
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How to create a tonal border from garden design expert, Arne Maynard

The borders at Cottesbrooke Hall are made up of pale pinks, deep purples and icy blues. Garden designer Arne Maynard shares some of the plants that make up the stunning borders, grouping them together in colour palettes.
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Create this gorgeous dahlia planting combination

Getting the right plant combinations is the secret to bringing your borders to life. Here's a planting scheme that makes the most of the vibrancy in colour and form of dahlias.
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