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Celebrate Valentine's Day With Bleeding Hearts

Dicentra and Lamprocapnos light up dappled shady areas with their heart-shaped flowers in pink, white and romantic red. Little wonder Val Bourne loves them

Make A Start With Chilli Peppers

Whether you’re a chilli addict or prefer the milder taste of sweet peppers, there’s a capsicum variety to suit all needs – and now is the time to get sowing, says Kris Collins

Choose Your Favourite Snowdrops

Dispel the winter gloom with beautiful snowdrops, says Hazel Sillver. Now’s the time to order them ‘in the green’.

Create Some Instant Winter Colour

If the garden is looking bare and bland, there are plenty of quick-fix ways to brighten the late winter scene, says Hazel Sillver

It Wouldn't Be Winter Without Clematis Cirrhosa

Blessed with an abundance of pretty, often fragrant bell flowers, it’s amazing that theevergreen fern-leaved winter clematis isn’t more widely grown 

Keep Old Jack Frost At Bay

There are smart ways to protect your crop says Toby

Lovely Liriope!

For reliable, attractive ground cover, no gardener should be without this superb autumnal performer and great weed-smotherer, says Rob Keenan

What To Team With Tulips

Want a new take on tulips? Bring these beautiful bulbs to life by combining them with complementary plants, says Hazel Sillver

How To Train And Tame Wisteria

Don’t be wary of wisteria, by choosing the right varieties and pruning regularly you can enjoy this quintessential climber without fearing a takeover bid, says Graham Rice

A Palace Alive With Wildlife!

Some parts of London have more variety than we have in the counrtyside says Val.

Treacherous March Weather

Don’t be fooled into believing spring is here, warns Peter

Smarter Weeding

Different weeds need different approaches, says Bob

Pots Of Colour At Easter

Add colour and drama to your container displays this Easter using bulbs, shrubs, alpines and annuals. Tamsin Westhorpe has some quick and easy ideas

Hardy Annuals For Every Garden

Tough, floriferous and inexpensive, these garden heroes are the best way to bulk up borders and ring the changes each year, says Graham Rice

Cover Your Tracks!

After leaving tyre tracks on the Earl of Devon’s lawn, Toby springs into action with a rapid repair

The Conifer Garden

Steve and Jane Cleverdon’s richly textured garden in Somerset is a haven of conifers, says Sue Bradley

Give Houseplants A Boost

Before you show your weary houseplants the door, Tamsin Westhorpe offers advice that will give lacklustre indoor species a new lease of life

Sorting Out A Cold Frame

Don’t neglect hardy cuttings and seedlings, says Ruth

Top Of The Trees

If you want to attract wildlife and cross-pollinate the apple trees in your garden, plant a crab apple, says Val

Cool For Cats

Love or hate them, cats can be good for a garden, says Bob

Dear Father Christmas...

No novelty ornaments as presents, please, says Toby

Creating An Instant Garden

Tamsin Westhorpe has some on-the-spot ideas for anyone renting or simply wanting quick results.

More Bloom For Your Buck With Repeat-Flowering Plants

Why have a single flush of flowers when you can have two, three or even more? Tamsin Hope Thomson looks at plants that will work double duty in the garden next year.

Rhapsody In Blue

Blue is the colour if you want your plants to pull in the bees, says Val.

Heavenly Scent Christmas Evergreens

Holly and ivy are long-time festive favourites, says Bob.

A Leaf Out Of Toby's Book

There’s more to leaves than meets the eye says Toby

A Dynamic Situation

We can all do our bit to care for our insect life says Val.

Best Winter Plants For Kitchen-Window Appeal

In the depths of winter, when you can’t always get outside, you need shrubs whose flowers and foliage can be admired from afar, says Graham Rice.

Our Pick Of 2018's Best New Fruit Bushes

Love berries but short on space? Winter is ideal for planting soft fruit, and the latest new varieties were created with small gardens in mind, says Kris Collins

Ornamental Grasses

With plenty of movement, colour, shape and texture, grasses really come into their own in autumn. But forget the big boys, there are varieties that are perfect for the most petite of plots.