Ideas & Inspiration
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Why Green Spaces Are Important – And How To Create One In Your Local CommunityIf you live in a town or city and don’t have a big yard, look beyond your back door. We explore why green spaces are important – and how to make more of yours
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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5 Urban Garden Ideas For Any Home – Add Natural Flair To The Tiniest Living SpacesJust because you live in a city, town or built-up area doesn’t mean you have to do without! Try these urban garden ideas to make a green haven even in limited space
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Resilient Plants For Extreme Weather: Planting To Safeguard And Protect Against The ElementsGrowing plants that can withstand bizarre weather patterns is becoming more of a worry these days. Try these resilient plants and plantings to boost levels of protection
By Susan Albert
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Grow Your Own Cocktail Ingredients: Plant A Cocktail Garden For Deliciously Fresh DrinksEver heard of growing your own cocktail garden? Try some of these cocktail garden plant ideas and impress your friends by becoming your own botanical bartender!
By Teo Spengler
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Easy Garden Winners: 8 Of The Best Low-Maintenance Plants For Your GardenThe easiest plants to grow are often some of the most stunning in color, texture and fragrance. Here are some of the best low-maintenance plants for beds and borders
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Essential Late Summer Gardening Guide: What You Need To Do Before Fall ArrivesThink things are starting to quieten down as fall approaches? Think again! We round up the key late summer gardening tasks you need to focus on now
By Amy Grant
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Need Floral Inspiration For Your Raised Bed? Try These Raised Flower Bed IdeasWere you thinking raised beds were purely the domain of exciting edible gardening? Prepare to be dazzled, as we reveal the best raised flower bed ideas to try
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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My Father’s Garden - A Trip Back in Time and Sunday SoupOn Father's Day, our editor Caroline reflects on how her father and his garden changed over the years, and how it's changed her own outlook going forward.
By Caroline Bloomfield
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7 Sustainable Trends All Gardeners Should Take From The UK's Chelsea Flower ShowThe RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 is championing sustainability, with a focus on water conservation and creating resilient landscaping schemes in the face of climate change. Discover the key ideas to take away for your own garden.
By Melanie Griffiths
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How to Grow Yarrow in ContainersBesides being pretty, yarrow is versatile, aromatic, and medicinal – and grows well in a container.
By Caroline Bloomfield
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Top 10 Questions About YuccaBy Bonnie L. Grant
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Pros And Cons Of Growing Wisteria Vines In GardensWisteria vines are beautiful in gardens, traveling over trellises and patio roofs. Learn what to do when they become a problem.
By Bonnie L. Grant
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Top 10 Questions About NasturtiumsNasturtiums are beautiful and the flowers are edible. Read about the top 10 questions we get about nasturtium plants.
By Laura Miller
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How To Kill Multiflora Rose Bushes - My Battle With Wild Rose BushesIf there is one weed I despise seeing in my yard, it's the multiflora rose bush. These wild rose bushes have thorns which snag and grab me whenever I get close.
By Laura Miller
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7 Key Trends We’re Taking From The Philadelphia Flower ShowShowcasing dazzlingly flamboyant floral arrangements and landscaping designs, the Philadelphia Flower Show 2024 also revealed the key themes that should be on every gardener's agenda this year.
By Melanie Griffiths
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Top 10 Questions About Weeds
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Grow These 8 Lunar New Year Plants For The Year Of The DragonThe Year of the Dragon can inspire us to grow with courage and vision – but which flowers bring the most prosperity and fortune? We round up the luckiest Lunar New Year plants
By Janey Goulding

