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A garden designer's tips for growing hedges
Garden designer Tabi Jackson Gee breaks down everything you need to know about hedges, from when to plant them to how to maintain them
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Our garden editor launches a Create Academy course on growing flowers from seed
Growing from seed is a subject close to our garden editor's heart, and in her new course from Create Academy, you can get all the advice you'll need to do it yourself
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The most common garden design mistakes – and how to avoid them
Garden designer Lottie Delamain considers the mistakes gardeners are most likely to make when planning a new garden, and advises on how to avoid them
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Butter Wakefield and Rita Konig are here to show you how to make the most of a small garden
As her latest course launches on Create Academy, Butter Wakefield unveils the brand new garden at Rita Konig's west London house, and shows us all the clever ideas involved
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Now's the time to collect and save seeds from your garden for next year – here's how to do it
Collecting seeds in September is one of our garden editor's favourite things to do - here she explains how to do it properly
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Piet Oudolf's ideas for a stylised and harmonious planting scheme
In the fifth instalment of her ‘Planting Combinations’ series, Clare Foster talks to the master of naturalistic planting, Piet Oudolf, about the ideas behind the scheme he devised for the Oudolf Field at Hauser & Wirth in Somerset
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How to start a kitchen garden: what to do in August
It is time to focus on tomatoes as they ripen in the greenhouse or outside, encouraged by regular pruning, watering and harvesting
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Meet the young generation of gardeners making gardening cool
From a bacteria that works like an antidepressant, to growing fruit and vegetables on your balcony, we explore the rise of green-thumbed Gen Zs
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Homesteading is back – and it's taking over your Instagram feed
Off-grid and on-line: We meet the social media homesteaders who are living off the land
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Sarah Price's ideas for a naturalistic and sustainable planting scheme
In the fourth instalment of the ‘Planting Combinations’ series, Clare Foster talks to Sarah Price about her instinctive approach to sustainable gardening
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How to start a kitchen garden: what to do in July
Our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this seventh instalment, Clare discusses the advantages of companion planting and harvesting regularly
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Psychotherapist Sue Stuart-Smith on the healing power of gardening
A piece from our June 2024 issue on gardening as a life-changer, and even sometimes life-saver
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How to start a kitchen garden: what to do in June
In a new series, our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this sixth instalment, Clare discusses the first harvests and sowing for a succession of salad leaves
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What it's really like to be a garden designer and how to get there
Garden designers including Butter Wakefield and Marcus Barnett share useful advice and insight for anyone considering the same career
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A beginners' guide to cut flowers
Garden designer Lottie Delamain examines the most common mistakes gardeners make when cutting flowers, and advises on how to avoid them
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A brief history of the daffodil
The first flower of spring was named 'Narcissus' by the Greeks and used in ancient China for its medicinal properties. In Daffodil: Biography of a Flower (Harper Collins), Helen O'Neill delves deeper into the stories behind the familiar yellow trumpet flower. Here she shares her early recollections of the iconic springtime treasure...
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A beginner's guide to gardening
Hands in the dirt, soft breeze on your face and sweet scents swirling around you: gardening is the best hobby to get into. We've dug up the best tips for beginners.
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Tom Stuart-Smith's dos and don'ts of gardening
The landscape architect and garden designer known for his naturalistic and resilient planting offers advice on good gardening
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Butter Wakefield's dos and don'ts of gardening
The sought-after garden designer offers her principles for good garden design
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The garden trends to know for 2024
Clare Foster tests the pulse of the garden design world to see what’s trending this year and finds that designers and their clients are tuning in to an increasingly wild aesthetic