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    2. Garden advice

    General gardening advice

    Alasdair Cameron's small garden with green foliage in London
    Shady gardens

    Tips on how to use green palette foliage plants

    Clematis 'Niobe'
    How to...

    Everything you need to know about clematis pruning

    010 Great Dixter
    How to...

    How to grow vegetables in pots

    Garden Designer Jinny Blom's own garden in Brockley London, June 2015 UK
    Garden design

    10 ways to improve your garden

    Vita Sackville-West
    Gardens

    Inspiring female garden designers in British history

    Bird on water trough at Yeo Valley Organic Garden
    Garden design

    How not to lose nature from your garden

    A small copper butterfly taking a drink of nectar from a thistle head flower, summer days.
    How to...

    How to attract wildlife into the garden

    Training roses into trees
    Garden design

    How to train roses into creative sculptures

    See more garden advice

    Pruning 

    HOW TO PRUNE
    Hedge cutting
    How to...

    How to trim hedges

    Pruning buddleia
    How to...

    How to prune buddleia

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    How to...

    Pruning dogwoods

    Trees

    How to prune apple and pear trees

    How to...

    How to prune wisteria

    Advice

    A guide to pruning roses

    Trees

    ADVICE FOR TREES
    Where support is needed, use a single round, wooden stake.
    How to...

    How to plant trees and first-year maintenance

    Coppicing hazels
    Trees

    Why coppicing makes sense

    Conifers
    Trees

    How to identify yew, larch and Scots pine trees

    Trees

    How to identify oak trees

    Trees

    How to identify London plane, walnut and sweet chesnut trees

    Trees

    How to identify hawthorn, crab apple and rowan trees

    See more trees

    Small gardens

    HOW TO MAXIMISE YOUR SPACE
    An illustration of the soil food chain from organic matter and bacteria to animals
    Resources

    What is soil?

    best climbing plants for gardens - Solanum crispum album
    Plants

    30 of the best climbing plants for 2023

    Clematis montana Group 'Freda'
    Plants

    Clematis montana: how to grow and prune, plus the best varieties

    See more small garden advice

    Shady gardens

    PLANTS WHICH THRIVE AWAY FROM THE SUN
    Daphne bolua 'Peter Smithers'
    Shrubs

    The best daphne for year-round colour and scent

    Helleborus x hybridus Pink Red
    Plants

    How to grow hellebores

    Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns
    Plants

    The best ferns for your garden

    See more shady garden advice

    Sunny gardens

    WHAT TO PLANT
    English Lavender, Lavandula angustifolia Elizabeth
    Plants

    Favourite lavenders for a low maintenance garden

    An illustration showing the plants used in a bold design for a late summer border by gardener Andrea Brusendorf
    Planting ideas

    Late summer planting plan using tried and tested plants

    Echinacea pallida
    Planting ideas

    Plants for full sun

    See more sunny garden advice

    Dry gardens

    WATER SOLUTIONS
    Kniphofia 'Nobilis'
    Plants

    Coastal plants: plants for a seaside garden

    Kathleen Murphy's Australian garden © Marnie Hawson
    International

    A sustainable family garden in Australia

    Dry gardens and drought in the UK
    Dry gardens

    Adapting to drought: how we should be gardening

    See more dry gardens

    How to...

    STEP BY STEP GUIDES
    Clean your rusty tools with wire wool
    How to...

    How to clean rusty tools

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    Solutions

    Reducing plastic in your garden and allotment

    Sharpening
    Garden Equipment

    How to sharpen garden tools and essential sharpening tools

    See more how to guides

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