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Gardening masterclasses

Lily in pond

Listening to water running into the pool or watching wildlife visiting a pond is a fabulous stress buster, but to ensure it remains at its best you need to give water features some tender loving care over summer, advises Martyn Cox. Read more

  • How to control slugs and snails
  • How to grow your own salad leaves
 

Gardening features

All about the great British allotment revival
  • Crunch time for allotments
  • Grandchildren's veg patch
  • Virtual garden design guide
  • Growing veg without a garden
  • How to grow blackcurrants

Q&As with Val Bourne

Val Bourne
  • Why won't my beans crop?
  • Livening up a rose bed
  • Drought-tolerant plants
  • How can I get rid of aphids?
  • Making August bearable
 

Terry Walton's allotment blog

A levada in Madeira
  • Aug 20: gardener's paradise
  • Aug 13: don't lose the plot
  • Aug 6: want an allotment?
  • July 29: the munch bunch
  • July 23: giant vegetables

Garden wildlife

Elephant hawk moth caterpillar
  • Elephant hawkmoth caterpillar
  • The brown long-eared bat
  • The Comma Butterfly
  • The swallow: a summer guest
  • The red damselfly
 

Val Bourne's plant portraits

Buddleja with butterfly

The beautiful buddleja is a natural magnet for British butterflies. Val Bourne tells us how to make the most of these butterfly magnets

  • The Goldfinch Rose
  • The drumstick allium
  • Rose 'County of Hampshire'
  • Tulipa ballerina

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  • How to be a stand-by saver

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