Choosing, planting and keeping things alive.
150 guides in Garden
Planting depth and drainage, why tatty foliage at flowering time is normal rather than a fault, and how to hide it — plus whether to deadhead or keep the seedheads.
Why this is the hardest planting situation in a British garden, the plant characteristics that survive both extremes, and the soil work that narrows the swing.
Lopsided plants are answering something — light, wind, a wall, a root obstruction or a pruning cut — and the fix depends which.
The five reasons plants flower out of season — mild weather, stress, pruning at the wrong moment, a second flush and simple normality — and which of them are worth doing anything about.
How to build permanently moist ground deliberately — with a lined basin and a controlled leak, or by working with a wet corner you already have — and what to plant in it.
Blind shoots on roses, bulbs and shrubs — what causes a shoot to grow strongly and produce no bud, and the cut that gets a flower out of it.