Plants

Alan Titchmarsh holding a maiden sized tree

Alan's guide to tree sizes

Pink pelargonium flowers

How to care for bedding plants

Lifting and cutting back turf encroaching over a path with a lawn-edging hand-tool

Weeding garden paths

Planted bulbs chilling in a fridge

Nine spring bulbs to force in autumn

Six ways to help trees and shrubs establish quickly

How to grow rambling roses - how to prune rambling roses

Pruning vigorous climbing plants

Planting wildflower plugs in turf

Three ways of planting wildflowers

Aechmea fasciata 'Primera': dusky pink flowers on silvered green leaves

How to grow bromeliads

Bright red, egg-shaped hips of the wild dog rose, Rosa canina

Roses for hips

Plant combinations for May

Abutilon 'Kentish Belle'

Abutilon 'Kentish Belle'

Pruning a conifer hedge with hedge-trimmers, to a line marked by taut string

Tools for trimming hedges in summer

A radicchio heart developing red-flecking

Veg crops to sow in summer

Nicotiana langsdorffii

Nicotiana 'Whisper Mixed'

Narcissus 'Spellbinder'

Get the best from dry soil

Heliotropium 'Baby Blue'

Heliotropium arborescens

Heliotropium 'Dwarf Marine'

Placing a block of slow-release granular fertiliser onto the soil beside a geranium

Choosing the right type of fertiliser

Saxifraga fortunei

Plants for green roofs with soil depth 100mm

Best geums to grow

Gladiolus murielae

Crops to harvest in September

Eyed hawkmoth illustration

Garden wildlife identifier: spring moths

Epimedium pubigerum

Nine beautiful epimediums to grow

Mowing a lawn with a petrol mower

Choose the right mower - power sources

Rows of young plants under a polythene cloche

Protect young veg plants in spring

Reliable shrubs and trees