Gardening

The robin is our beloved Christmas bird, who brightens the frosty garden with its red breast and beautiful song. Lure this characterful singer by providing its favourite food and nesting sites.

For a dense show of flowers and a succession of bloom, plant bulbs in layers this autumn. Hazel Sillver looks at the effortless delight of the ‘bulb lasagne’

We have asked the experts to share their top tips to ensure a glorious display next summer

As his debut course launches on Create Academy, Sissinghurst’s head gardener Troy Scott-Smith talks us through the key jobs to do this season

Continuing her series, Clare Foster joins Keith Wiley in the extraordinary garden he has created in Devon. Over a period of more than 20 years, he has transformed a flat field into an atmospheric space that reflects his love of uncultivated land worldwide and his experimental approach to planting

Sarah Price is well known for her sustainable, naturalistic approach to garden design – here she talks to our garden editor Clare Foster about the specifics, and offers a planting scheme to copy

The modern border is drought-tolerant, wildlife-friendly, and has an unfussy naturalistic look. Hazel Sillver looks at the essential plants to achieve it.

The sought-after garden designer offers her principles for good horticulture

Using builder's waste as a gardening material is sustainable, low-maintenance, and drought-proof. Hazel Sillver looks at how to grow plants in hardcore.

Garden designer Lottie Delamain examines the most common mistakes gardeners make when cutting flowers, and advises on how to avoid them

Garden designer Tabi Jackson Gee breaks down everything you need to know about hedges, from when to plant them to how to maintain them

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

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

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

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

It is time to focus on tomatoes as they ripen in the greenhouse or outside, encouraged by regular pruning, watering and harvesting

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

Off-grid and on-line: We meet the social media homesteaders who are living off the land

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