Flowers

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

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

Biennials bring colour to spring and summer borders - and are easy to grow from seed. Sissinghurst head gardener Troy Scott-Smith shows how to grow biennials and the best flowers to choose.

Make sure you've got the perfect blooms in the garden for summer. Tom Brown, head gardener and tutor at West Dean College, recommends his favourites.

Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.

The modest blooms of single-flowered roses have a simplicity and perfection all of their own, and are highly attractive to pollinators. Head gardener Mat Reese chooses 13 of the best. Photographs Jason Ingram.

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

Looking to add more drought tolerant plants to your garden? Annie Godfrey of Daisy Roots nursery recommends some of the best drought tolerant plants.

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

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

Create a buzz in your garden by adding the plants that bees love best.

Fragrant, drought tolerant and easy to grow, lavenders are popular plants that suit many different styles of garden. Discover more with our lavender expert grow guide.

Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith guides us through the jobs that he and his team do in summer.

Make your garden attractive to vital pollinators with these suggestions of plants that butterflies love

Do you really need to deadhead your roses? Here, leading rosarian Michael Marriott busts six myths we all thought we knew about roses

Want to know how to make your roses ramble perfectly up a tall obelisk or structure? We have expert tips from garden designer Graham Lloyd Brunt

Tim Stretton, head of gardens at Mounton House, explains exactly how to take cuttings from dahlia plants so you can increase the number of dahlias you have in your garden this summer

Garden maker James Horner uses lush foliage and delicate coloured blooms for a fresh container combination at Benton End in Suffolk, the former home of artist-plantsman Cedric Morris

Despite their reputation for being hard to grow and infuriatingly easy to kill, Eremurus, or foxtail lilies, are spectacular and desirable plants for sunny borders or gravel gardens with well-drained soil

Three garden designers and landscape architects – Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Ula Maria and Jo Thompson – choose their favourite dahlias for late-season colour.