Plant inspiration

Browse our features, packed with advice on adding colour, structure and year-round interest to your garden.

Pot display of Zinnia marylandica 'Zahara Yellow', Lantana 'Lucky Pure Gold', Bidens aurea, tagetes, Helichrysum 'Silver Mist' and Cosmos bipinnatus 'Sonata White'. Sarah Cuttle

22 plants for pots and containers

Plants to avoid growing near houses

Thuggish garden plants

The best birch trees to grow

10 types of birch tree to grow

Pink pelargonium flowers

How to care for bedding plants

20 plants for dry shade

More plant guides

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Heavenly herbs

How to grow annual herbs

10 unusual herbs to grow

A pot and cup of fresh herbal tea

Healing garden herbs to grow

Five ways to keep herbs productive

Browse Plant Finder

Fruit and vegetables

Rubbing sandy soil between thumb and fingers

Find out your soil type

Skimmia japonica ‘Rubella’. Sarah Cuttle

What to plant in December

Blackberries ripening on the stem. Tim Sandall

How to grow blackberries

How to grow purple-sprouting broccoli

How to grow purple-sprouting broccoli

More on growing your own

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Witch Hazel Hamamelis

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Witch Hazel Hamamelis

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Callicarpa Bodinieri 'Profusion' (Beautyberry)

Clusters of jewel-like, amethyst-purple berries that stand out once the leaves fall.

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