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BARNSDALE at 40

Enjoy a fresh look at this iconic garden as it celebrates its 40th birthday, and find out what makes it still so special today

Summer pickings from your windows

You can raise glorious crops of healthy ingredients in your home - just follow our guide from windowsill-veg grower Lerato Umah-Shaylor

All shapes & sizes

In the first of a two-part series, Joe Bagley reveals the weird and wonderful world of cacti and other succulents, with his top 12 favourites and why you should have them in your home

Making a garden: A PLACE TO ENTERTAIN

Sunny days and warm, balmy evenings are here at last, so make your garden the perfect welcoming space for meals, parties and celebrations with Alan Titchmarsh's easy guide

Propagation made easy

Boost your house plant collection via leaf cuttings with the latest of Nick Bailey’s plant propagation masterclasses

Over the fence

Is it feasible to ban pesticides in commercial growing’?

Your wildlife month

June's borders are full of buzzing bees and other insects. Look out for big fat bumblebees rolling around and metallic green rose chafers flying noisily over roses.

YOUR PRUNING MONTH

It’s now time to deadhead blooms, prune stone fruits and fan-train plums, says Frances Tophill

"You can create something from nothing and it's just so magical"

Discover how one of our competition finalists turned a small urban plot full of ivy and builders' rubble into a tropical wildlife haven

CECILY WITHALL

Kew's first female climbing arborist since the 1980s, Cecily is part of a team that maintains the botanical garden's impressive collection of 12,000 trees

ADDED INTEREST?

Columnist Ken Thompson urges caution over so-called miracle garden products; they're not always all they're cracked up to be

Gathering attention

As garden designers start to reappraise lilacs, we take a look at the fascinating French history of the once ubiquitous English garden shrub and re-examine some forgotten cultivars

Pale and interesting

A sense of tranquillity is the guiding principle in this beautifully realised white garden, with an elegant, pared-back planting palette

Nature first

Around the Neoclassical home of Jade and Julian Dunkerton, Urquhart & Hunt has designed a garden that works in harmony with a variety of wildlife

Change of tune

In this small Dutch garden, designer Jelle Koot has used a simple rhythm of repeated plants to create a calming, cohesive scheme

Wild dreams

The mix of varied growing conditions in this ebulliently planted garden in East Sussex helped to forge an ecological vision and approach to gardening that benefits wildlife

PAOLO PEJRONE

The legendary Italian designer, who thinks of himself primarily as a gardener, on the importance of keeping gardens bold and simple, and working with nature in adapting to climate change

GEUM

Offering flowers from late spring into summer, this varied genus of hardy perennials is deservedly growing in popularity

June plants

In early summer, head gardener Åsa Gregers-Warg is spoilt for choice with a fabulous mix of richly coloured and delicate flowers, fabulous foliage and silky tactile grasses

True grit

Swedish plantsman Peter Korn is a pioneer of growing in sand, and his glorious new garden near Malmö is testament to its success

Mixed blessings

In a quiet corner of Essex, designer Stefano Marinaz has replaced a lawn and parking space with a naturalistic garden of mixed planting that offers interest all year

Helping a hoya

Masterclass on: caring for wax flowers

How to pot up seedlings

Knowing when they are ready is important

Lungs of the earth

Trees help sustain so much life on our planet

USING AND CONSERVING WATER

Water is a valuable resource and Stephanie Hafferty offers some tips on storing, using and reducing our need for it on our plots

STRAWBERRIES SEASON BY SEASON

Delicious, vibrant, easy to grow and easy to maintain. What's not to love about this most succulent of fruit

COURGETTES UNCOVERED

If you follow Martin Fish's advice and top tips you can expect a summer of copious courgettes, plus there's another succulent dish from wife Jill

BUILD A POND TO BE PROUD OF

Creating a wildlife pond in your garden is one of the best gifts you can offer wildlife, which in turn will help to look after your crops, says professional gardener and garden

CULTIVATE AND CONNECT

Gardeners have always enjoyed comparing growing stories and sharing advice. Hannah Reid looks at the social media trends in gardening and how it cultivates friendships

The great escape

They've been running rings around him for years, but Toby's bunny chums have now moved on to pastures new