Discover a natural world on your doorstep as you immerse your senses on this summer gardeners’ cruise around the British ...

Get your garden off to a great start. Alan Titchmarsh shares the tasks you can do now, indoors and outside, to ensure your ...

Enjoy the historic manor house De Vere Tortworth Hall, 30 acres of stunning grounds and rejuvenating spa treatments ...

Foraging for wild food is most popular in autumn, when berries ripen and mature on plants in hedgerows, woods, parks and coastlands. Temptingly bright red berries shine out like jewels and are easy to ...

The lily is amongst the most elegant of summer flowers, producing spectacular and often huge exotic-looking blooms across a wide spectrum of colours. Some lilies are richly perfumed, too. Flowers are ...

As more and more garden centres close their doors for good, Flo Headlam considers what the future looks like for garden centres and how many are diversifying to survive ...

Keeping chickens follows a long tradition of poultry keeping that reaches back for millennia. Chickens have lots of character and they're fairly easy to keep in most back gardens, even for beginners, ...

With its striking mohican-like crest, a black throat, and a black mask round its eye that looks like eyeliner, the waxwing is the 1980s pop star of the bird world. Slightly smaller than a starling, it ...

Gardens and planted areas in towns and cities are effective at absorbing rainwater and preventing soil erosion. Their ability to take up water reduces the amount that the drainage systems have to cope ...

Bamboo is a woody plant in the grass family Poaceae, with tall, upright canes and long narrow leaves. Most bamboos have evergreen foliage with canes that come in shades including green, brown, yellow ...

When we asked our readers what gardening mistakes they made this year, hundreds of people responded. We've analysed the responses and found the ten most common mistakes, from pruning too hard and ...