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Summer

Don't have room for seed pots and trays? Try this easy way of sowing seeds with these 21 beautiful flowers

Sowing seeds where you want them to flower is an easy, bother-free way to bring colour to your garden. Here, three experts recommend their favourite flowers for growing direct
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Jewel-like spring flowers in brilliant shades for those awkward cracks and crevices in your garden

These brightly coloured, early spring-flowering alpine plants are perfect for rock and crevice gardens or tumbling down a stone wall.
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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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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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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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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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You don't find poppies and cornflowers in a real meadow - here's why they are so rare and what a meadow actually is

A brief history of the evolution of the meadow, from the last ice age until the present day – and why poppies and corncockle do not a meadow make…
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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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A well-behaved alternative to bamboo, these grass-like evergreens are great year-round

Defying easy categorisation, restios are evergreen plants that offer eye-catching details, attractive stems and grow rapidly in spring
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Slug-proof veg: 17 plants they won't eat

Struggling with slugs eating your crops? Here are 17 varieties of veg that they won't touch.
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