GARDENERS ARE always touting foliage over flower. No gardening conversation is complete without someone advocating for small shrubs over work-heavy perennials, and declaring that it’s really trees ...

Driveway garden borders are challenging. The soil dries out quickly beside the hot concrete, killing annuals. Try a hardy perennial you plant once and forget.

Many of you gardeners out there will be fully aware that the nasturtium plant is a dream to grow as it doesn't really need looking after once it's established. The bright orange and red flowers ...

If you dream of your flower borders and containers filled with glorious color this summer, May is a fantastic month to sow annual flower seeds. Many easy-to-grow flowers producing blooms of different ...

Purple leaves, as well as being attractive in their own right, make red and yellow flowers seem more intense, and add more depth to a border than green leaves ever can. Purple flowers, on the other ...

British gardeners can take pride in two of our greatest inventions: landscape parks and herbaceous borders. The landscape movement was a development of the old deer parks, but we owe the borders to ...