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6 secret tricks of garden designers to make your garden look and feel better

Good gardens usually reference a few tried and tested design tricks – here's how to incorporate some of them into your own space.
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Everything you need to know about Fritillaria

Fritillaries come in many forms, from the dainty and intriguing to the dramatic and bold.
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50 invaluable plants for the garden as chosen by a royal garden designer

Landscape designer Jinny Blom picks the 50 plants she loves the most, from first loves, to flowers great for a pot
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These plants will make your garden look good all year: 30 plants and flowers for year-round colour and interest

These hard-working plants provide several seasons of interest in your garden through flowers, fruit, foliage, bark and even spring shoots
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21 brilliant bulbs to plant that will give you colour in every season

Garden designer Adam Hunt recommends his favourite bulbs for colour almost all year round.
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It's time to plant summer flowering bulbs - here's our guide on exactly when to plant them and which to grow

Spring is the ideal time to plant summer-flowering bulbs. We asked four experts to recommend their favourites
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Why Britain's going mad for saunas and how you can enjoy one in your own back garden

Saunas are the latest must-have addition to our outside spaces. Sit back and relax with our pick of the best saunas for your garden.
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Best garden plants for now

These less common magnolias are perfect for small or large gardens in spring and will survive in many conditions

Yellow magnolias can be an attractive alternative. Here you'll find growing advice for yellow magnolia trees and shrubs, the best magnolias to grow and where to buy them.
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These are the flowers you need in your garden this spring, as chosen by expert designer Dan Pearson

With spring firmly in the air, designer and plantsman Dan Pearson chooses his favourite plants from his garden Hillside, in Somerset, that bring him joy in spring
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Bring blooms, colour and scent to your garden right now with the expert’s pick of exquisite early flowering shrubs

Flowering shrubs bring much needed colour and scent to the garden in late winter and early spring. Expert Tony Kirkham selects the best.
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The best flowers to plant for a beautiful spring garden to lift your spirits

Looking for inspiration for the best spring flowers? Here's our choice of the most beautiful spring flowers to have in a spring-fuelled garden
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54 brilliant purple flowers for the garden

Discover 55 of the most beautiful purple flowering plants for the garden, chosen by expert horticulturalists and growers
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Easy to grow and care for – why you need to grow heuchera for year-round colour

With their striking foliage in a range of bold colours, heucheras, and the associated heucherellas and tiarellas, are low-maintenance plants that offer year-round colour.
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