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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.
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
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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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.

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
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

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
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

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.

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.

"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

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

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.

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

When to water plants in hot weather
In the heatwave, make sure you're watering your plants at the right time of day

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

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

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

"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.

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?

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

Gardeners mourn the loss of horticulturist and GQT panellist Matthew Biggs
We remember the much loved broadcaster, horticulturalist and writer, who has died.

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

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