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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.

Short on time or just hate weeding? Here are the weeds most gardeners dread finding, plus some you should probably allow to grow

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

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.

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

With their tall, fly-catching trumpets, sarracenias are wonderfully exotic looking, but given a sunny spot and plenty of water, they are surprisingly hardy.

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

All the big names in one place. Here's our guide to the gardening calendar's biggest and best gardening events for the year ahead

From a compost festival to an exhibition displaying a 1500s gardening manual, there are plenty of fascinating events to attend this summer.

Here how to buy the new book from Gardens Illustrated - The New Beautiful

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

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.

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?

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

With England seeing drier and drier summers, we investigate the impact of a potential national drought being declared and what this would mean for our gardens

Want a lovely garden full of beautiful plants but not to have to spend lots of time growing, pruning, watering and mollycoddling them? These are the best low-care plants if you don’t have time for (or interest in) gardening

Love them or hate them, garden makeover shows help aspiring home gardeners get started. But why are opinions split?

Three gardening experts recommend 17 of the best contemporary bedding plants, which pollinators will love, for stunning displays