Gardening advice
Expert gardening advice for designing and planting in your garden
Everything you need to know about tulip fire
Tulip fire is a fungal disease that can affect tulips. Here's expert advice on how to identify it, and what to do if you find it in your garden
Wondering how best to grow and care for tulips? Our expert guide explains everything you need to know
We break down exactly how and when to plant tulips to make sure your blooms emerge perfect in spring
The antidote to ultra-processed food: why you should be growing your own this year
More people than ever want to grow their own, for a variety of reasons, says
Dr Richard Claxton, and this one thing can improve our health and help the planet
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Everything you need to know about Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club
Discover all about Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club, the new season that focuses on gardening on ITV1
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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
It's almost time to divide your snowdrops so you have a beautiful carpet next year. Here's an easy way to get more snowdrops for free
All you need to know about growing snowdrops, including when to plant snowdrops and how to care for them
Planting and caring for daffodils for a spring garden plus the most lovely varieties to grow
Expert grower Hannah Gardner gives advice on planting narcissi in borders, pots and lawns and recommends the 10 best narcissi to grow
What to plant in March for beautiful blooms and tasty veg over the summer and beyond
Head gardener Benjamin Pope and grower and writer Aaron Bertelsen offer their suggestions for the best things to plant in pots and beyond this month
As spring arrives you need to get these tasks done in the garden - the ten key gardening jobs for March
It's spring fever in the garden, as kitchen gardener Aaron Bertelsen and head gardener Benjamin Pope share their gardening jobs for March
Advice for big gardens
How to coppice hazel
Our guide on how to coppice and cut back hazel for lovely hazel stems and to keep your hazel plants healthy
6 big changes to how we’ll be gardening in the future, by one of Britain’s top head gardeners
Sissinghurst head gardener Troy Scott Smith shares the big changes he is making in how he gardens in response to climate change
Stuck with a slope? Top ideas and inspiration for steps and ramps in the garden
Expert advice from Andrew Wilson on how to cope with level changes in the garden, with ideas on including steps and ramps with safety and accessibility in mind
Advice for dry gardens
Get help for planting and ideas for your dry garden
How to protect grass seed from birds
Head gardener Troy Scott Smith explains his tips and tricks on sowing grass seed in a way that the birds won't eat
What does 'organic' actually mean? We break down the confusing terms and see if it's possible to garden organically
Organic is a word used a lot in the gardening and farming world these days, and many people are trying to 'go organic'. But what does organic actually mean? It isn't as simple as you think
How to care for your lawn: 10 top tips for keeping your lawn lush and green
Head gardener of Stockton Bury Tamsin Westhorpe explains ten simple tips that will help you care for your lawn
Gardening how tos
Wondering exactly how to do something in the garden? Discover our gardening guides
Everything you need to know about Fritillaria
Fritillaries come in many forms, from the dainty and intriguing to the dramatic and bold.
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.
You do need to prune dogwoods, but you don't need to do it every year - here's our expert guide on how to prune your winter stems
Learn how to prune dogwood to ensure that it produces plenty of colourful stems for winter.
Low maintenance gardens
Our guide to finding the easiest ways of gardening
Leave your leaves: Here's why you don’t need to tidy up those garden leaves
Gardeners mean well, but the act of gardening can be a hindrance to increasing biodiversity. Maybe, says Rebecca McMackin, we need to let leaves be. Illustration Rosanna Morris
How to lay a hedge
Interested in the centuries-old skill of hedge laying? Follow our guide on how to lay a hedge and learn about the traditional ways to lay a hedge. Words Louise Allen, photography Andrew Montgomery, illustration Liam McAuley
Wondering what no-dig gardening is? Let the expert explain
Generations of gardeners have been told that digging is the best way to prepare soil for planting – but that’s a myth, according to grower Charles Dowding, who practises no dig gardening. Charles explains what no dig is and how it works
Advice for shady gardens
Get help for your shady garden
20 of the best plants for shade - including a designer's recommendations
Discover 20 of the best plants for shade, including recommendations from garden designer Chris Moss
Looking for colour in winter? Hellebores are perfect flowers for the season- here's how to plant, care for and sow them
Plant expert John Hoyland gives advice on planting, sowing and growing hellebores. Plus, the best varieties to grow, recommended by some of our favourite plant experts.
A small sloping backyard was given a designer update and is now a beautiful, flower-filled family garden on different levels by Farlam & Chandler
Design duo Farlam & Chandler has transformed a heavily shaded plot into a beautiful, flower-filled family garden
Sunny gardens
Beautiful pink, orange, red and white poppies for your garden and how to care for them
The scarlet poppy may be one of the most instantly recognisable flowers, but with more than 70 species of Papaver, in a range of shapes and colours, there’s one for every garden. Plant expert John Hoyland picks the best and gives his growing advice
When to water plants in hot weather
In the heatwave, make sure you're watering your plants at the right time of day
Wondering what jobs to get done this summer? Let Sissinghurst's expert head gardener guide you
Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith guides us through the jobs that he and his team do in summer. Images by John Campbell
Advice for wet gardens
Get help for your wet garden
31 small garden design ideas from experts that will maximise impact and space on your own plot
Three top designers share expert advice on creating small spaces that really work, with insightful dos and don’ts to apply to your own garden. Picked by Harry Holding, Caroline Clayton, Harriet Farlam and Ben Chandler
Ten tips for gardening plastic free
David Ware, head of eco garden centre EdibleCulture, offers up his top tips for how to garden without using plaastic
Stop! Here are 14 things you think you need to do in your garden but you actually don't
The RHS offers up 14 things in your garden that you think might work, but which actually don't