Rose expert Michael Marriott shares his love of roses and advises how to use these garden favourites as cut flowers.
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Rose expert Michael Marriott shares his love of roses and advises how to use these garden favourites as cut flowers.
Cosmos are one of the easiest, most rewarding flowers you can grow in your garden. Their simple, open flowers have a friendly, smiley, summery demeanor and can be planted in beds, borders, pots and containers all around your garden with simply stunning results.
Debi Holland shares her love of garden annuals and suggests five fabulous annuals to grow in your garden
Plants, gardening, horticulture and even botany are on trend. It’s an exciting time to be part of this growing fashion. Jean Vernon shares five new plant trends coming your way
Debi Holland offers five reasons why flowers are good to grow in among your veg.
If you have access to a garden, you have an open door to reach a little deeper into its offerings and calm you mind, body and spirit, explains Debi Holland
If you want to have a go at growing your own fabulous cut flowers, try ranunculus, otherwise known as Persian buttercups.
Anemone Mistral is a beautiful, Italian bred anemone that makes a fantastic cut flower and is so very easy to grow
Everyone loves roses. Michael Marriott from David Austin Roses has spent his career working with these wonderful plants and picks some of his favourites.
Looking like lilies on steroids, tree lilies produce towering stems that are capable of carrying up to 30, dinner plate sized blooms in summer. Apart from their dramatic good looks, the flowers possess an intoxicating scent that makes spending time outside a true sensory experience.
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.
Jean Vernon extols the virtues of the winter evergreens holly and ivy explores some of the myths and legends that relate to some of these seasonal plants
 Geoff Stonebanks uses summer flowering bulbs to augment his garden containers with great effect
A garden is not complete without a rose or two. Jean Vernon finds five new roses at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival
There are so many inspirational gems at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, many are unachievable in most gardens, but here are five ideas from this year’s show to take home for your plot
This summer our Gardening Club members helped trial some of next year’s new plants. Geoff Hodge reports
A dress made from 300 Poinsettia flowers celebrates International Poinsettia Day on December 12th.
Poinsettias make great festive cut flowers and will last up to two weeks. Here are 5 great ideas for using poinsettias as cut flowers.
Jean Vernon picks her five favourite small gardens from this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show.
Get behind this year’s British Flowers Week to support and celebrate local and British grown cut flowers.
Richard Jackson reveals the true extent of his Flower Power Plant Food’s winning streak
British Flowers Week is 15 – 19 June 2015. Celebrate by growing your own cut flowers in the garden. Here are 5 easy flowers to grow.