Flowers

Bulbs aren’t just for spring – there are plenty of exciting autumn-flowering beauties you can plant to bring welcome cheer as the days draw in

Put the work into your garden now and you'll reap the rewards come spring. Head gardener Benjamin William Pope and garden writer Aaron Bertelsen explain what you can sow in November

There's plenty of ways to find colour and contrast in the garden on November days. Here Tom Brown and Fleur van Zonneveld pick the best plants for November. Photographs Jason Ingram and Maayke de Ridder

Formerly known as sedums, hylotelephiums are drought-tolerant perennials that offer long-lasting flowers in late summer and autumn, and are adored by bees and butterflies

The flowers that are blooming bright this October month are warm and vibrant to help ease the transition to cooler days. Head gardener Tom Brown and nurserywoman Fleur van Zonneveld choose the plants they love. Photographs Jason Ingram and Maayke de Ridder

In planting design, we often consider colour, says Nigel Dunnett, but the form of flowers can be just as important

From an early venture saving wedding bouquets, Keith Kralik and Rachel Parri of Flower Press Studio have turned pressed flowers into fine art

Looking to create a charming cottage garden feel in your garden? Marcus Eyles picks the plants you need

Three professional cut-flower growers recommend the plants they couldn’t live without – all reliable, easy to grow, robust and beautiful in the vase

Florist Sarah Statham reveals the secret to creating striking natural floral displays: adapting to the shape of your vessel.

Add a sense of grandeur to your garden with these deciduous shrubs that flower in late summer and early autumn.

From cool pastels and foliage to hot colours, designer Jo Thompson creates a stylish container combination

With tight, bright burrs on wiry stems, long-flowering sanguisorbas offer a haze of gauzy colour

These tough, sun-loving blooms combine well with grasses and other late-flowering perennials and look great in prairie-style and modern cottage-garden schemes

As summer reaches its peak Tom Brown, the head gardener at West Dean Gardens, picks his favourite August flowers. Photographs Jason Ingram

Five expert designers and plantspeople choose their top garden plants that are adaptable, beautiful and sure to grow happily whatever the weather throws at us

As our climate changes, gardeners are finding their plant palette is shifting, with some old favourites no longer happy and opportunities to try something new

You might think you hate yellow in the garden - but have you considered pale yellow? This versatile shade combines beautifully with many other colours and can make a border sing

With delicate blooms in soft colours, new cultivars of these adaptable, long-flowering beauties will suit many different planting styles and conditions, and sun or shade

What all those rose terms really mean and the pointless rose-growing rules you can totally break, plus the experts’ picks of top roses to grow

Persicaria are versatile perennials with late season, brightly coloured flower spikes on hearty green plants from July through to late October. Plantsman Rory Dusoir shares his advice on how to grow persicaria and where to plant it.

Plant expert John Hoyland explains how to grow dianthus, where to plant it and when to take dianthus cuttings.

Discover some of the best July flowers and plants including a graceful daylily and a dwarf, claret sunflower