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Establish a clematis
Sambucus - flat-topped and glorious
Cotinus - puffs of smoke or lollipop leaves?
Hydrangeas - which one to choose?
Elegant fuchsias
Indigofera - the sunlover
Early-flowering summer shrubs
Agapanthus for vertical interest
Summer daisies
Rudbeckias
Echinaceas
Asters
Lavenders - aromatic sun-lovers
Clove-scented beauties
Honeysuckles - scent for shade
Top drawer roses for scent
Fragrant shrubs
Border phlox
Vegetable seedlings - to thin or not to thin?
Cloches - highly decorative and practical
Sweet Peas for the Cutting Garden
Origanum - aromatic and nectar-packed
Sedums - late summer jewels
Echinaceas - perfect landing platforms
Buddleja - the ultimate butterfly magnet
Perennials for the cutting garden
Flowers for the cutting garden
Roses for the cutting garden
Which aster?
All about coneflowers
Add a touch of warm red
Colour in the early autumn garden
Simple but stylish protection
Plan ahead with bulbs
Create colourful containers
Dark and sultry
Planting roses
Once and only or repeat-flowering?
Ground cover roses
Climbing and 'pillar' roses
Shrubby and healthy
Holly - a must for winter berries
Small trees with red fruit
Coloured stems
Raspberries - the easiest fruit to grow
Currants
Blueberries (and other more exotic things)
Indestructible, desirable and beguiling - the witch hazel
Generously scented and generously proportioned
Winter warmers
A long flowering season and a hyacinth scent
Daphnes - capricious creatures with charisma
Camellias (the winter-flowering sasanquas)
Viburnums - great for spring and early summer
Daphnes
An Oriental treasure
Early Summer-flowering shrubs
Philadelphus for citrus-scented mock orange blossom
Scented lilacs
Shrubs as architectural statements
Posh bedding
Posh Pelargoniums
The versatile Dahlia
Gladioli for the summer garden
Decorative seed heads for the autumn garden
Pepperpots, lace and satin-white skeletons for the autumn garden
Touches of red for the autumn garden
Tall grasses and partners to gaze through in the autumn garden
The autumn lipstick reds and pinks
Honey and mustard autumn foliage
Rich green foliage for autumn
Rosette plants in the autumn garden
Planting roses during late autumn and winter
General pruning advice for roses
Preventing rose disease
Planting companions for roses
Shimmering late-season grasses
Silhouettes and winter stems
Plants with seedheads for the winter garden
The King of evergreens
Doorstep evergreens
Evergreens for a south facing wall
Evergreens for leaf alone
Self clingers
Twiners
Clematis - colour from spring to autumn
Top notch perennials
Choosing your perennials
Sun loving perennials
Magnificent magnolias
Scented-leaved plants for pots
Shade lovers for pots
Wonderful evergreens for winter pots
Feeding your potted Buxus
Non stop geranium flower power! Non stop geranium flower power!
Spring performers
Small and perfectly formed
English lavenders
Lavendins
French lavenders
Aromatic agastaches
Bee-pleasers
Bulbs for an early show
Crocus bulbs
Naturalising Narcissus bulbs in grass Naturalising Narcissus bulbs in grass
Be adventurous with new Narcissus, plus which ones are the best scented
Tips for your tulips
Plants birds love in the winter garden
Roses for poorer soil
Repeat flowering, old fashioned roses for better soils
Winter containers
'Easy-peasy' blueberries 'Easy-peasy' blueberries
'Easy-peasy' raspberries 'Easy-peasy' raspberries
'Easy- peasy' gooseberries 'Easy- peasy' gooseberries
'Easy-peasy' strawberries 'Easy-peasy' strawberries
'Easy-peasy' blackberries 'Easy-peasy' blackberries
'Easy-peasy' currants 'Easy-peasy' currants
Sowing sweet pea from seed Sowing sweet pea from seed
Sowing tough hardy annual seeds Sowing tough hardy annual seeds
Sowing half hardy annuals in trays Half hardy annuals better sown in trays
Sowing half hardy annual seeds Sowing half hardy annuals
Heavenly helleborus Heavenly helleborus
Roses Roses
How to use those dreamy flower spires
Long flowering plants for your garden
Low maintenance plants for a sunny garden
Low maintenance plants for a shady garden
Low maintenance plants for partial shade and slopes
Summer stars from warmer climates
Late summer clematis
Miscanthus - king of the autumn grasses
Late ornamental grasses
Over wintering half hardy plants in pots
How to overwinter tender plants or take cuttings
Winter care for roses
Overwintering dahlias, cannas and begonias
Overwintering bananas and tree ferns
Trees, the showmen of the winter garden
Hedges and screening Hedges and screening
Wispy macropetalas
March and April flowering clematis
May montanas
Easy viticellas for late-summer
Which cloche should I choose?
Which plants need cloching?
Cloching for an early crop
Pulmonarias - top of the nectar table
Aquilegias - nectar-rich and lovely
Peonies - magical plants in every sense
Umbelliferas
Late summer bee and butterfly magnets

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