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Gardening mistakes: gardening celebrities reveal their worst gardening failures
Feel like you're always making mistakes in the garden? You're not alone. We asked gardening experts about their gardening failures
How to make a decorative Christmas cloche as an impressive centrepiece for a party table
Entertain in style this Christmas with this beautiful floral cloche from Swallows & Damsons. Words Anna Potter, photographs Andrew Montgomery
Best UK gardens open for Boxing Day walks
Many UK gardens are open this festive season, so why not work off your Christmas indulgence between Boxing Day and New Year with a winter walk at one of these 13 great open gardens?
Can gardening make you smarter? It improves your Focus, cognition and creativity, says expert doctor
Gardeners know that time in the garden can clear your head, but as Dr Richard Claxton reveals, it can actually improve your focus, cognition and creativity.
Illustration: Vicki Turner
Give your containers autumn style with the help of designer Jo Thompson's hellebore and euonymus designs
Designer Jo Thompson creates this stylish display using hellebores and euonymus to see you through the colder months
We need to stop the ecocide by councils, developers and big business, says this community gardener
As a community gardener at the Eden Nature Garden in Clapham, south London, former marine biologist Benny is on a mission to promote ecology within the garden world.
Portrait: Andrew Montgomery
How to prune your yew hedge this winter
Learn how the experts prune yew with the help of Chiswick House's head gardener Rosie Fyles.
No space for a tree in your garden? Think again – with these 13 expert picks for trees in pots
No space for a tree in your garden? Think again. We asked experts to recommend the best trees to grow in containers. Words: Chris Young, Photos: Jason Ingram & Eleanor Walpole
Iconic London landmark the Barbican Conservatory set to be revamped in major restoration project
Barbican Conservatory is set to be revamped by Harris Bugg Studio.
Meet the landscape designer on a mission to 'beautify' cities
The award-winning landscape designer and horticulturist on her Kenyan childhood, feeling a strong connection with the land and her desire to beautify cities.
Words: Paula McWaters, Portrait: Rachel Warne
The Christmas treat that's grown in a bog and harvested underwater: discover the surprising story of this festive fruit
Plant ecologist Ken Thompson on the remarkable cranberry plant and it's tricky way of harvesting underwater
This garden may look ‘messy’ to some, but it's low maintenance, keeps wildlife very happy and looks stunning in autumn
With no horticultural training, art teacher Karin Winkler relies on intuition to create her naturalistic garden, which comes into its own each autumn. Words: Claire Masset, Photographs: Robert Mabic
A great planted pot for winter and autumn using succulents with architectural texture
Designer Jo Thompson creates a stylish display to see you through the colder months using aloe and other succulents
Nigel Slater on savouring the end of autumn
For Nigel Slater, one of the great joys of autumn is the sight of golden, bronze and rich-red leaves gently falling – a slow dance that completes the circle of life.
Illustration: Paul Wearing, Portrait: John Campbell
You can have a sustainable garden that's also beautiful - here's how to design stylish ecological gardens
Charlotte Harris explains how to design gardens that are ecological and beautiful in her expert guide to sustainable garden design
Make your own Christmas decorations from your garden
Festive ideas and inspiration for stylish Christmas decorations such as baubles and garlands, easily handmade at home using foraged and natural materials from the garden
This futuristic park on stilts is a new landmark for New York with planting prowess from top designers
Little Island park in New York, designed by Heatherwick Studio and with planting by MNLA, is an exciting new city landmark.
Words: Humaira Ikram, Photographs: Ngoc Minh Ngo
Great flowers and plants for the garden in December picked by head gardeners
The best December flowers and foliage from winter interest plants chosen for structure, colour and texture in the garden. Photographs Jason Ingram
In praise of the chrysanthemum
Discover exactly how to grow these late-flowering hardy chrysanthemums that will look perfect in your garden. Photographs by Jason Ingram
Not just your granny's favourite: discover the place bringing chrysanthemums back in fashion
Norwell Nurseries has an inspiring on-site garden and a sparkling range of plants on offer, with many late-flowering
perennials, including colourful chrysanthemums. Words Phil Clayton, photographs Clive Nichols
These plants will make your garden look good over winter
The seedheads of perennials bring drama to the garden in winter and provide food for birds and insects, too. We recommend 11 of the best
Think there is nothing to start growing now? It's actually garlic planting season. Here's how to grow it
Garlic is one of the healthiest ways to add flavour to food and is not difficult to grow. Allotmenteer Jojo Tulloh explains how to get started. Photographs Andrew Montgomery
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
The world's most extreme trees grow in the fiercest conditions. But should you plant them in your garden?
Faced with a warming climate, many gardeners are thinking carefully about resilient plants for their garden. But what about three of the world's most extreme trees?