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Create a Wildlife Oasis

"10 easy ways to make your yard a better place for birds, bees, butterflies and more."

Early-Blooming Shrubs

Greet spring with pretty plants that shine all season.

Enlightened Landscaping

"Choose the right things to plant to benefit wildlife and yourself"

Perks of Propagating

A step-by-step guide to multiplying your most prized succulents.

Annie's Bets the Farm

To help save the planet, the General Mills subsidiary is leading the industry toward regenerative agriculture.

Prime Time For Planting

Find Out Why Fall Is Perfect For Late-Season Gardening.

12 Ways of Looking at a Garden

Permaculture in an age of change

Learn Why These Colorful Plants Thrive in Lake Placid

Learn why these colorful plants thrive in lake placid

The future for Sissinghurst

The climate crisis is affecting us all. Head gardener Troy Scott Smith outlines the challenges he faces and explains how he is now working differently

DAYDREAM BELIEVER

Fuelled by the temptations of plant catalogues, Nigel Slater fills winter days imagining his dream garden

Bright blooms

Flowering shrubs bring much needed colour and scent to the garden in late winter and early spring. Expert Tony Kirkham selects the best

HEUCHERA AND TIARELLA

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

BEECH GARDENS at the Barbican, ten years on

As a new phase of planting begins, Professor Nigel Dunnett looks at how the iconic public gardens he created at The Barbican Estate in London have evolved over the past decade

KEITH HAMMETT

The sweet pea and dahlia breeder on his early love of breeding, the excitement of seeing dahlias in the wild and finding the missing slice of the sweet pea colour spectrum

I am fundamentally lazy and put off gardening chores'

Our resident botanist Dr James Compton talks about his new collaboration with Hans Walter Lack and Martin Callmander

CREATING CONTEMPORARY PLANTING BEDS

Designer Charlotte Harris reflects on the shift towards organically shaped 'island' planting beds, and reveals inside tips on how to get the right effect

SWEET DREAMS

A new book on one of the UK's favourite flowers is filled with beautiful photography, but is more than a coffee-table tome, says cut-flower grower Georgie Newbery

JINNY BLOM'S - favourite plants

Award-winning landscape designer Jinny Blom set up her studio in 2000 and has since designed many beautiful, thoughtful gardens, both large and small, around the world.

ARE PLANTS PEOPLE TOO?

Some recent research suggests plants may be able to learn, sense and communicate. So, asks Darryl Moore, should we now rethink how we treat them?

VERDANT VALLEY

For his own Mediterranean garden, designer Maurizio Usai has gone against the trend for drought-tolerant planting and created a lush, green natural oasis

Food for thought

More people than ever want to grow their own, for a variety of reasons, says Dr Richard Claxton, and this one thing can improve our health and help the planet

DIGGING FOR DEVON!

Rhiannon Alcock thought gardening was definitely not for her. So who could have foreseen that one day she would go on to found a thriving community project growing food for food banks?

OUR TOP PLOTTERS

Last summer we launched a competition to find our Top Plotters, with the top three winning some great prizes and the chance to be featured in Kitchen Garden magazine this year. Here we meet our second-placed pair

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR COMPOST

Dr Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic shares some great ideas for ways to use your composted waste effectively

DIGGING THE DIRT THINGS THAT GO CLUNK IN THE LIGHT

John Holloway finds the mechanical and electrical tools on his allotment site somewhat 'challenging', shall we say. But has he found the perfect solution?

THE BIG (OR LITTLE) PARSNIP GROW-ALONG

Back in December we included a free packet of parsnip seeds with every issue and invited readers to join us in growing the longest root. Here are some top tips to get you started

CREATING A POTAGER GARDEN

Creating vegetable beds in patterns with dividing pathways can be an attractive and practical way to grow. Emma Rawlings offers some tips on making a potager

SOW EASY

Are you ready for spring? It all starts with those seeds and the more we can do to improve germination rates, the better our chances for a bumper season. Benedict Vanheems offers some advice to help you up your sowing success

A wildlife pond is born

Jane Kelly finally got round to making her own pond in the hope that it would attract a variety of wildlife. And it did!

HERB OF THE MONTH: SAGE ADVICE

Sage has been an important culinary and medicinal herb for centuries but it also comes in a range of leaf colours that makes it a real treat for the eyes (and nose) in borders and pots