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Garden border ideas | Spring border: a planting plan by designer Sarah Price
Download this border planting plan, created exclusively for Gardens Illustrated by award-winning garden designer Sarah Price. It will look good from late winter to early summer. Illustration by Hannah McVicar.
Expert tips for designing a meadow
Garden designer James Alexander-Sinclair gives his advice and tips on how to include a meadow in your garden
How to plan a dry garden plus plant combinations
Spanish designer Fernando Martos explains why he combines the beauty of Spain's arid landscape with English planting ideas in his dry garden designs. If we're considering climate change, his approach could be a useful one for us to take note of
Late summer planting plan using tried and tested plants
This bold design for a late summer border by gardener Andrea Brunsendorf uses tried and trusted plants that will keep the show going in your garden border until the first frosts
The best varieties of thalictrum and how to grow
Often thought of as tall, airy plants with finely cut foliage and a froth of flower, thalictrum are, in fact, much more varied. Organic gardener and plant expert Val Bourne is your guide to growing thalictrum and recommends the best varieties. Photographs Lynn Keddie
How to grow peonies
Peonies offer voluptuous blooms to grace your garden from late spring until July. Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and Claire Austin give tips on how to grow these alluring flowers
Garden border ideas | Romantic flower border: download our planting plan
A flower border planting plan, perfect for a cottage garden created by award-winning garden designer Jinny Blom. Illustration by Hannah McVicar
The best gardening knives for pruning and more
10 gardening knives for outdoor tasks
The best plants for winter seedheads
The seedheads of perennials bring drama to the garden in winter and provide food for birds and insects, too. We recommend 11 of the best
The best peonies for your garden
Nursery owner Claire Austin grows over 100 different herbaceous peonies in her garden and trials field to find the very best
Where garden designers buy their plants
A garden is only as good as its plants. Here four renowned garden designers choose their favourite plant suppliers.
9 of the best Salvias for late season colour
There are over 900 species of salvia, offering a long flowering period and a great diversity of flower colour. Here, William Dyson, from salvia experts Dyson's Nurseries, picks 9 of his favourites
An innovative take on the contemporary
At Whitburgh House, near Edinburgh, an innovative take on contemporary planting is paired with graphically chunky structure grows under open Scottish skies
Garden border ideas | 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.
Martha Stewart's top tips for a successful garden
We visit writer, TV personality and garden enthusiast Martha Stewart's private garden. Here she gives her top tips for creating a successful garden and recommends some of the best gardens to visit in the USA.
Garden border ideas | Download our designer plan for an exotic, east-facing border
A sheltered, east-facing plot can be the ideal spot for a beautiful border crammed with half-hardy and exotic plants. National Trust head gardener Mick Evans offers some inspiration with a colourful planting scheme. Download the planting plan here.