Alexandra Campbell

Have you discovered what ornamental grasses can do for your borders yet?

Have you thought about how your garden micro-climate affects how well your plants grow?

You can grow wildflowers in a border, a pot and a window box as well as in a meadow.

You can grow wildflowers in a border, a pot and a window box as well as in a meadow.

I’m often asked for advice on visiting gardens in the UK.

When the rewilded garden by Urquhart & Hunt won ‘Best in Show’ at RHS Chelsea in 2002, it triggered a debate about whether rewilding could be called gardening at all.

These are the top trends at RHS Hampton Court 2024. They are the ideas that I think translate best to real gardens.

Edimentals is a new term for growing flowers and vegetables together. Gardens today are often too small to have a separate ‘veg patch.’

A rose garden used to mean a garden planted only with roses.

Today’s top garden ideas at this year’s BBC Gardeners World Live were logs, corten steel, ponds, coloured garden furniture and more mixing of veg and flowers.

If you’re looking for recycled garden ideas, then this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show had them on almost every garden.

RHS Chelsea 2024 – or the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, to give its full name – is the most prestigious flower show in the world.

If you buy your garden border plants from the people who grow them, you’ll benefit from their expert advice and knowledge.

Ground cover plants are low-growing plants that spread easily to cover areas where nothing much wants to grow.

The basic idea of No Mow May is simple. Just don’t mow your lawn in May, which allows some wildflowers and weeds to bloom. This provides valuable nectar and habitat for emerging pollinators. And they in turn are a food source for birds, bats and other wildlife.

Whether you have a steep, sloping garden or just a small bank, there are some key facts you need to know about gardening on a slope.

Before you plant anything in a shady garden, you need to know what kind of shade you have.

Before you plant anything in a shady garden, you need to know what kind of shade you have.

A contemporary cottage garden fuses traditional cottage style with ‘naturalistic planting’, according to garden designer, Tim Pilgrim.

Are you looking for garden ideas for a difficult part of your garden?

We all have ‘difficult garden areas‘ or spaces we want to revamp without re-designing the whole garden.

You may not intend to prune your trees yourself.

Leave the leaves is the new gardening mantra.

Do you want to support wildlife in your garden – but you don’t want a ‘wild’ looking garden? You’d like beautiful borders and gorgeous pots? Even, perhaps, a short neat lawn?

Garden border maintenance in both autumn and spring is mainly about the plants.

Here are key autumn garden tips plus 7 top suggestions of plants to plant now.

If you look up garden ruins or follies in the dictionary, you will be told that they are ‘costly ornamental buildings with no practical purpose.’

Kathy and Stuart Pickering created their rustic cottage garden in a stretch of field.