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Adding colour and interest into your garden doesn’t just mean you need lots of flowers. Here are five great winter stemmed dogwoods for your garden.

Don’t be scared, bats in the garden are a blessing not a curse. These little creatures mostly eat garden bugs as Wildlife World Bat expert Chantal Brown explains.

Apples are starting to ripen in the orchards and gardens, so make the most of your apple harvest with this easy to make tarte tatin recipe from Lubera.

For months of colour for the patio or kitchen windowsill, grow pelargoniums. They’re very easy to grow, even for beginners, and they’ll reward you with a stunning display all summer long.

Try this recipe for rhubarb crumble and custard cake from Holly Farrell’s book Grow Your Own Cake.

The best-selling Christmas plant of them all, poinsettias are sold in a range of sizes and colours. They make great pot plants, but with a bit of creativity can also be used as decorations.

Make the most of your garden pears with this delicious recipe for pear caramel from Holly Farrell’s new book, The Jam Maker’s Garden.

This recipe for pea cheesecake is a delicious light lunch or summer starter, and uses everything but the pod itself from the pea plant.

The hellebore is a fabulous winter garden stalwart. Specialist nurseryman John Massey chooses five of his favourites.

Make the most of the strawberries from your garden with this easy recipe for strawberry tiramisu.

When in flower in spring, azaleas are simply stunning, literally covered all over with vibrant and beautiful blooms. Here are five great azaleas recommended by Peter Chapman from Perryhill Nurseries.

When it comes to early spring flowers, Hepaticas are among the most beautiful. On bright sunny days their flowers open wide to display their simple beauty and unobtrusive charm.

Crocuses are sometimes underrated garden gems, bringing a welcome splash of colour to gardens, heralding the end of winter and the start of the much-awaited longer days and warmer weather ahead.

A dress made from 300 Poinsettia flowers celebrates International Poinsettia Day on December 12th.

Birches are one of the most attractive trees for our garden, but if you thought that they all had silver or white bark, you are very much mistaken

Recipe: With its sweet pumpkin flesh, and just a hint of heat from flecks of red chilli, this chutney is perfect with a mature cheddar.

Protect your garden from some of the worst garden pests with Richard Jackson’s Organic Garden Health Kit

If you love peonies you will adore scented tree peonies. Mature plants can boast over a hundred flowers on one plant.

Don’t miss your chance to grow the award-winning Hydrangea ‘Magical Ruby’ which holds its colour changing flowers for six long months!

The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is an exciting, unusual specimen tree for the larger garden. Plant one in your garden for the ultimate wow factor!

Be among the first to grow Phlox ‘Jewel Mixed’. It offers luxurious rosebud blooms and months of flowers from May right through until the autumn.

Grow Oriental lilies for a rich fragrance and exotic blooms. Plant bulbs in garden borders or in pots for colour and scent all summer long!

Poinsettias make great festive cut flowers and will last up to two weeks. Here are 5 great ideas for using poinsettias as cut flowers.

Turn your rhubarb into a delicious syrup or cordial. This delicious rhubarb recipe comes from the kitchens of fruit specialist Lubera.

Gardens to visit in the Cotswolds, including Batsford Arboretum, Misarden Park and Littlefield Garden in Cheltenham.

If you buy one plant this spring, choose something that adds elegance and drama to your garden. Introducing the amazing Rhododendron ‘Germania’ – the QVC cherished choice for Plant of the Month for February.

Look out for a fantastic collection of giant trailing fuchsias on Richard Jackson’s Garden at QVC this spring.

Gardens close to woodlands and countryside can offer ideal sites for owl boxes says Wildlife World expert Chantal Brown.