Planting ideas

Garden maker James Horner uses lush foliage and delicate coloured blooms for a fresh container combination at Benton End in Suffolk, the former home of artist-plantsman Cedric Morris

As late spring turns to early summer, Keith Wiley and Andrea Brunsendorf pick the flowers that will look best in June

Struggling with slugs eating your crops? Here are 17 varieties of veg that they won't touch.

Four plant combinations to add colour and drama to your summer borders with inspiration from Malverleys head gardener Mat Reese

Despite their reputation for being hard to grow and infuriatingly easy to kill, Eremurus, or foxtail lilies, are spectacular and desirable plants for sunny borders or gravel gardens with well-drained soil

Ever wondered how companion planting might help your vegetables and deter pests? Here expert grower Matthew Biggs breaks down the companion planting myths and explains how the system works

Although known as vigorous plants, Clematis montana can be also be medium sized or even compact. Here are some recommended varieties from the National Collection at the garden of National Collection holder, Val Le Neville-Parry.

Dahlias are a must in the summer and autumn garden. Here's everything you need to know about how to grow dahlias, plant tubers and how to take cuttings.

Elders are easy-to-grow shrubs and small trees, best known for the cordial and wine made from their starry flowers and berries, but with newer cultivars now offering excellent ornamental qualities for the garden too

As the days and soil gets warmer, expert plantsman Keith Wiley’s choice include colour, from a bright-orange lily to a crimson rose, offset by the delicacy of a soft-pink viburnum.

With spring firmly in the air, designer and plantsman Dan Pearson chooses his favourite plants from his garden Hillside, in Somerset, that bring him joy in spring

Looking for plants that won't get munched by slugs? Instead of using slug controls, why not grow plants that the molluscs just don't like? Here's 38 to choose from

Sowing seeds where you want them to flower is an easy, bother-free way to bring colour to your garden. Here, three experts recommend their favourite flowers for growing direct

Species tulips are the smaller, more delicate predecessors of modern tulips. Plant expert Jonny Bruce explains how to grow them, and recommends 13 of the best.

These hard-working plants provide several seasons of interest in your garden through flowers, fruit, foliage, bark and even spring shoots

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.

Ideas for homemade plant supports using natural materials, to give plants support and protection during the growing season.

Designing your planting layout with colour is a satisfying way of creating your garden. Here's a selection of red plants, chosen by experts, that we love

Bring bright, sunny colour to your late-winter garden with the earliest flowers of the year, which will spread to create golden carpets under trees.

Three expert gardeners pick their favourite seed catalogues and online plant lists that are also an enjoyable and informative read

Discover some of the best shrubs to plant in your garden for birds, chosen by Isabel Losada

Making your garden a safe haven for birds is easy and rewarding says Jane Moore, author of Planting for Garden Birds.

Defying easy categorisation, restios are evergreen plants that offer eye-catching details, attractive stems and grow rapidly in spring