Shady gardens

Alasdair Cameron's small garden with green foliage in London

Tips on how to use green palette foliage plants

best climbing plants for gardens - Solanum crispum album

30 of the best climbing plants for 2023

Daphne bolua 'Peter Smithers'

The best daphne for year-round colour and scent

Helleborus x hybridus Pink Red

How to grow hellebores

Propagating ferns: how to grow ferns

The best ferns for your garden

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief'

The best flowering dogwoods

Container display using a mass-planting of daffodils

Inspiration and advice for planting bulbs in pots

Rodgersia ‘Herkules’

20 of the best plants for shade – including a designer’s recommendations

Japanese garden

What is a Japanese Garden?

Trillium Sulcatum

The best trilliums to grow in your garden

The deep beds are crammed with a complex tapestry of perennial interest, with an emphasis on foliage that ranges from the fresh, grassy growth of Hakonechloa macra to the deep-plum leaves of Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’.

Planting for a dry and shady urban garden

Fern Alder's woodland garden

Woodland garden inspiration: Fern Alder’s carefully planted space

H. macrophylla ‘Zorro’

Simple to grow Hydrangeas

Kirsty Ramage pots of style. Photo by Andrew Montgomery

Wild-style spring plant display for the container garden

Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’

Geums and how to grow them