Graham Rice

Flowers in pots provide instant colour to a drab spot in the garden. Here are 5 plants you can’t go wrong with.

Encourage more butterflies into your garden by choosing plants with nectar rich flowers

Garden birds need all year round support. You can create a beautiful garden full of fantastic plants that not only look good but feed the birds too.

Gardening is not just all about colour. Add interesting leaves and floral fragrance to bring additional richness to your surroundings and you’re on your way to something far more satisfying.

Choose some great plants that flower in winter to add interest to your garden. Plantsman Graham Rice chooses his five favourite winter beauties.

Plan ahead and plant bulbs this autumn for weeks of colour next spring. Graham Rice has five garden stalwarts you can buy and plant now.

Avoid plants with prickles, thorns and toxic sap to keep children safe in the garden with advice from Graham Rice.

Surprise visitors to your garden with huge sunflowers, gigantic pumpkins, stinky lilies and big dahlias. Here’s 5 unusual plants to grow.

If you love beauty and colour in your garden take a look at these plants. Each type offers a huge variety of colours to bring your garden alive.

Choose to grow ground cover plants in your garden to naturally smother weeds. They cover the ground and don’t leave any spaces where weeds can grow.

Autumn is the perfect time to plant trees and shrubs. Here are five easy to grow, low maintenance shrubs from plantsman, Graham Rice.

If the kids show an interest in gardening, start planning now to nurture their enthusiasm and choose easy, fun plants to entertain and educate them.

Use the fences and walls in your garden to create colourful and dramatic borders. Graham Rice suggests five great plants for growing against a fence.

This year there’s something for everyone in terms of new plants at Chelsea – climbers and plants for the patio are especially prominent. Graham Rice picks his top five.

Perennials come in every size and for every garden situation, and most of them do well without too much special care, but some are particularly forgiving.

Add perfume to your garden with plants. Choose scented flowers and plant them near the patio so that you get the best from every waft of fragrance.