Trees

The best cherry blossom trees

18 of the best cherry blossom trees

If you follow a strict pruning regime for your wisteria, you will be rewarded with showy pendant racemes of fragrant flowers.

How to prune wisteria

The best wood for wood burning stoves: Cherry wood

The best wood for burning on wood burning stoves and fires

Crab apple Malus Evereste

The best crab apple trees for colour and form

Rowan tree

How to identify hawthorn, crab apple and rowan trees

How to cut when you prune

The principles of pruning

Hedera helix 'Dyinni'

Trees and shrubs to plant for birds

Espalier fruit tree

How to train fruit trees

Paulownia tomentosa in bloom

How to grow a foxglove tree

Apple tree 'Discovery' and when to prune apple trees

How to prune apple and pear trees

Dicksonia antarctica

Tree fern: everything you need to know to grow a tree fern

Evergreen trees; Arbutus unedo

Evergreen trees for gardens: the best to grow

Lichens: Flavoparmelia caperata, the common greenshield lichen

What are lichens?

Marks Hall in Essex

Gardens to visit

Marks Hall arboretum and walled garden in winter

Ash trees

How to identify ash trees