Summer

Agastache 'Black Adder'. Photo: Jason Ingram

The best plants for butterflies

Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks: how to grow alcea

Perpetual flowering carnations

Discover the world of the perpetual carnation

Salvia 'Amistead'

The best bee friendly plants

Mary Keen’s greenhouse is cleverly positioned to form part of the circuit around the garden; you can admire her collection of pelargoniums by walking right through it. The path here is lined with jewel-coloured dahlias and the tall, luminous-blue Salvia patens ‘Guanajuato’ emerging from clouds of Erigeron annuus.

Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

A mix of Dahlias and grasses are planted up into a greengrocer-style box

Planting ideas for late-summer container display

Echinacea 'Aloha'

The best plants for July

Verbascum ‘Raspberry Ripple’

Verbascum: how to sow, grow and propagate

Watering can

When to water plants in hot weather

Kniphofia 'Scorched Corn'

The best red hot poker kniphofias to grow

Helianthus 'Ms Mars' (Sunflower)

The best summer flowers to plant

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Temptation'

Veronicastrum: how to grow and which to plant

Campanula sibirica

Campanula: how to grow bellflowers

Cosmos bipinnatus 'Cupcakes White'

The best cosmos to grow

Sunflower Pastiche

Sunflowers: the best varieties and how to grow