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Out in front

Transform your front garden with low-maintenance plants that look good all year and welcome you home with colour and scent in winter, as Hazel Sillver explains

This week... Rudbeckia hirta

Tips on growing plants also known as yellow coneflowers or black-eyed Susans

Sophisticated crocosmia

What's in a name? Graham Rice explains why the vigorous, almost invasive montbretia is more popular and better behaved under its modern name of crocosmia

Mending fences

Toby flags up some of the mistakes people make when building a fence – and explains how to make yours better

This week... Dahlias

For showy blooms from mid-summer until autumn, choose dahlias

Unstoppable bloomers

Hazel Sillver looks at a selection of the best long-flowering rose varieties for a small garden that will produce scent and colour during summer and into autumn

Marvels of the Mediterranean

Bring a touch of the Mediterranean to your garden and help drought-proof your plot, says Anne Swithinbank, as she reveals a range of plants suitable for the UK

Annuals with lots to give

Godetia are a pretty addition and easy to grow, says Ruth

How to keep plants fruitful

Ruth keeps her tomatoes and strawberries healthy

Planting a bed of leek plugs

Swapping veggies for chutney helps fill Ruth’s raised bed

Keeping the garden on track

Hygiene is about more than a neat garden, says Ruth

Pruning trained fruit trees

Reduce shoots to let in the sun and help fruits ripen

Last chance summer pruning

Ruth gives trained fruit trees and flowered shrubs a trim

Bounty on a budget

PART 4- Continuing her six-part series, veg growing expert Sally Nex looks at how to pick your crops at just the right time, stay ahead of garden pests, and save seed for next year

Fresh from the plot

This month Rekha is basking in the warmth of late summer, as her crops ripen for harvest. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, it's time to make a batch of deliciously spicy sweetcorn scones

Call of the wild

Want to try a more natural way of gardening but not sure where to start? Sally Nex explores rewilding on a small scale and offers easy first steps

Your ultimate cut flower guide

Bring the garden into your home with Louise Curley's guide to growing, cutting and arranging homegrown flowers. In this first of a two-part series, she looks at what to snip in the garden, how to condition stems and the best dahlias for the vase

Where do I start? Water features

PART 11 Getting started

COOKING UP A TREAT

With hazy, lazy days gliding into balmy August nights, now is the perfect time to cook and enjoy your meals outdoors. Let Adam Frost be your guide as he looks at the very best ways to cook in your garden, from fire pits and barbecues, to stoves and pizza ovens

Pots for summer impact

In the final instalment of her summer container series, Arit shows us how to plant up a display teeming with seasonal colour and punch

PLANTS WITH PURPOSE

Part 6: Trees

Monty's summer veg patch

Discover how to get the most from your veg patch as Monty shares his expert advice on harvesting veg and planning ahead for winter crops

ROB'S PLOT BRING on autumn

Summer is ending and harvesting and preserving become a part of day-to-day life for every veg gardener. Veg expert Rob Smith is no exception...

SIMPLE SEED SAVING

The cost of seeds can be quite prohibitive for some so why not save your seeds instead, and all for free? And there are other reasons too, as Dr Anton Rosenfeld, knowledge officer of Garden Organic, explains

Hot crops FOR cool weather

Winter radish is a crop that can be sown now and will mature really quickly. Emma Rawlings offers some advice on which ones to grow and how

FROM POTS TO PLOTSI

Starting out with houseplants, Hannah Reid then progressed to growing herbs and vegetables on a small scale indoors. Now she has two flourishing allotment plots!

ALL ABUZZ ABOUT CHELSEA

Stephanie Hafferty takes a tour of this year's Chelsea Flower Show with her pick of the gardens

SOWING YOUR FREE SEEDS

Here we offer some tips on growing your free KG seeds this month

PROTECT YOUR GARDEN FROM WEEDS AND PESTS

In this issue BBC Radio 2 gardening expert and Welsh Water's Pestsmart ambassador, Terry Walton, shares the natural methods that he relies on to combat weeds and pests

EXTENDING THE SEASON WITH ONIONS

From sowing to harvesting to storing, home-grown onions are something you can have all year round.