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Badminton Estate

RHS Badminton Flower Show brings designer show gardens, floral displays and expert talks to a new location in Gloucestershire

RHS Badminton Flower Show is on the horizon - here's everything you need to know about what's on and how to get a ticket.
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A garden with a bench

How to turn your garden into a peaceful sanctuary with top tips from expert designers

Desperately seeking a sense of tranquillity? Discover how to make your garden a space for mindfulness and wellbeing
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Kids vs garden? You can have a beautiful family friendly space, says Chelsea Flower Show designer. Here’s how

You can have a nice garden that both you and the kids will love, says Charlotte Harris, if you design smart and think ahead
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Helianthus 'Ms Mars' (Sunflower)

The best summer flowers to plant

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.
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Katie Guillebaud pots of style May 2026

A green shrubby planting combo with lush summer colour and winter seedheads

Discover how to recreate this vibrant planting container, which will look at its best in May
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Summer borders at Malverleys

Want a stunning summer border? Here are four beautiful flower combinations with lots of wow-factor that you can plant in your garden

Four plant combinations to add colour and drama to your summer borders with inspiration from Malverleys head gardener Mat Reese
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The Julia Rausing Garden by Tom Stuart-Smith, Feature Garden. Image credit: The Julia Rausing Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith

Tom Stuart-Smith to design largest ever RHS feature garden and a surprise pop star turns his hand to garden design at RHS Badminton Flower Show this year

A huge feature garden is being planned by world-renowned garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith and there will be a surprising appearance from a popstar at RHS Badminton 2026
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Rudbeckia hirta 'Prairie Sun'

60 great flowers chosen by experts that will bring brilliant colour in early summer to your garden

As temperatures continue to rise, momentum gathers in the garden and sun-lovers show their hand. From nodding woodlanders to audacious perennials, here are 60 early summer flowers chosen by experts
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House and large lawn

The modern way to care for your lawn - and the one reason why it never looks its best

Your lawn doesn't have to be such hard work. Here’s how to have gorgeous patch of grass without the hassle.
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Katie Guillebaud pots of style May 2026

A peaches-and-cream container combination for a bold early summer planter

Create a gorgeous early summer container display with designer Katie Guillebaud's easy-to-recreate pot recipe.
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Sam Southgate

"Gardens and green spaces are for everyone and everything": Meet horticulturist Sam Southgate

Horticulturist Sam curates the woodland banks in Lady Anne’s Garden at RHS Garden Rosemoor. Portrait Jason Ingram
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Old Rectory Wrestlingworth

Discover this naturalistic, flower-filled garden on an old pony paddock

Jo Hoy’s Bedfordshire garden is testament to her skill in balancing self-seeded natives, prized ornamentals and structural trees and shrubs
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Phlox drummondii grandiflora 'Creme Brulee' © Getty / Manders

Grow your own bouquets - two gorgeous arrangements for borders and vases

Leading cut-flower growers recommend plants to grow for gorgeous borders and flower arrangements.
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Dry gardens and drought in the UK

7 expert tips for how to garden in a heatwave, from lawn care to watering (#4 might surprise you)

As the hot weather in the UK continues, we ask three horticultural experts how we should be adapting the way we garden to hotter, drier conditions
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When to water plants in hot weather

In the heatwave, make sure you're watering your plants at the right time of day
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Digitalis ‘Polkadot Polly’

Everyone knows the classic foxgloves - but these perennial versions are fast-becoming designer favourites

While biennial Digitalis purpurea is perhaps the best-known foxglove, many species are perennial and have become designer favourites
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Luciano Giubbilei’s Mallorcan garden, The Field

Discover this gorgeous wild garden in Mallorca, designed to test how plants behave with different levels of human interaction

For his own new garden on the Balearic island of Mallorca, designer Luciano Giubbilei has created a wild, romantic space to experiment and observe how plants behave with different levels of interaction
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Illustration of flowers with house in the background by Hannah Pontin

The Great British Gardening Festival? We should aim higher than Chelsea Flower Show

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show shines a light on horticulture for a week every year, but is there a better way to bring gardening to the masses, asks Jack Wallington
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Vogue Williams, Irish media personality and model attends RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 © Kirstin Sinclair/Getty Images

"It's a circus!" Celebrities dominate Chelsea Flower Show coverage, but there's a growing backlash from gardeners

The exclusive nature of RHS Chelsea Flower Show is seeing an increasing backlash from gardeners.
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Andy Sturgeon's The Mind Garden © Britt Willoughby Dyer

2026 signals the end of an era for Chelsea Flower Show - what's next?

Now Project Giving Back funding is ending, what will the show look like in the coming years?
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Planted pergola in the Hedgerow in the Sky - Tech Mahindra garden

The Gardens Illustrated team pick their favourite gardens at Chelsea 2026

The Gardens Illustrated team pick their favourite show gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026
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Matthew Biggs

Gardeners mourn the loss of horticulturist and GQT panellist Matthew Biggs

We remember the much loved broadcaster, horticulturalist and writer, who has died.
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Bundle of grasses and tied grasses in the Killik & Co garden

17 garden design ideas to steal from this year's Chelsea Flower Show, including five that won't cost you a penny

The Gardens Illustrated team pick 17 take-home design ideas that caught their eye at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026
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Flood Re: Contain the Rain Garden

UK gardeners could be 'sleepwalking' into a £30,000 repair bill - this small garden shows you how to avoid it

One Chelsea Flower Show garden is highlighting an increasingly important issue you may not have considered
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