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Get into the mood of Halloween by carving a pumpkin. If you’ve never carved a pumpkin before, follow this easy step by step to create a spook-tacular masterpiece!

The Easter holidays are the perfect time to get the kids outside. Here are a few activities to get kids helping in the garden, from crafts to easy plants.

If you open your garden for charity, enter our competition to win £250 worth of ‘Golden’ Flower Power for your garden.

Gardening Club members are growing 12 new plants for Richard Jackson’s Garden. Here is a plant trial update on some of the plants members are growing.

Richard Jackson’s Garden website has won the Garden Media Guild’s award for Website of the Year 2015 at a glitzy reception at the Savoy Hotel in London.

Belton House, near Grantham, is a great garden to visit with children. There’s a great adventure playground with slides, zip wires, swings and a fort.

Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, is a great family day out, with adventure playground, beautiful gardens to visit and much more.

Add some light to your garden with these funky decoupage glass jar lanterns. They’re so easy to make, perfect for kids and adults.

This simple craft idea using an egg carton, pipe cleaners and googly eyes will get kids growing in no time at all and is a great way to learn all about seeds.

Spring brings the garden into life and as the days warm up, it’s a good time to be out tidying up after winter and getting ready for the year ahead.