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Alan Titchmarsh, Sir David Beckham, His Majesty and Frances Tophill look at Chelsea designs. Image: RHS

Beckham’s Chelsea Flower Show garden includes a hidden nod to his football career

Cabbage plug plants ready to be planted out. Tim Sandall

Garden jobs to get done over the Easter weekend

Planting seed potatoes in the ground. Jason Ingram

Should you delay planting potatoes after the wet winter?

20 trees for small gardens

From Japanese maples to hardy palms: small trees for every space

Penstemon Just Jayne

20 beautiful plants slugs and snails won't touch

Dahlia 'American Dawn'. Jason Ingram

Why smart gardeners start their dahlias in pots first

Deadheading mop head hydrangea. Sarah Cuttle

Prune your hydrangeas now for bigger and better blooms

Snowy mespilus, Amelanchier lamarckii. Jason Ingram

Five plants that thrive in waterlogged soil

Placing carrot tops in water to encourage leaves to grow. Getty Images

Supermarket hacks: five supermarket staples you can regrow for free

Buddleja davidii 'Orpheus'. Sarah Cuttle

Cut your buddleia back now, or it could turn to a twiggy mess

Johnny Walkers at Hever Castle

The secret to better daffodil displays, according to an expert

Valle del Jerte, Spain. Getty Images

From Kyoto to Kew: your ultimate cherry blossom guide

Chilli seeds waiting to germinate indoors. Sarah Cuttle

Don't miss your last chance to sow chillies, aubergines and sweet peppers

Carol Klein shows us around her private garden

A visit to Carol Klein’s garden taught us these 4 brilliant gardening lessons

We speak to Dr Kim Walker, behind the herbs of Hamnet. Image: Universal Pictures

Obsessed with Hamnet? Plant the magical herbs seen in the film

Pruning a shrub rose. Sarah Cuttle

Don't miss your rose pruning window

Stapelia gigantea

10 weird ways that plants kill other plants, outwit insects and even eat rodents

Alan Titchmarsh growing potatoes

From bag to bumper crop - how to grow potatoes anywhere

Pink moth orchid. Jason Ingram

Orchid won't flower? Read these top tips

Crevice garden. Paul Debois

Meet the crevice garden – wild, sculptural and surprisingly easy

Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), also known as common rats, in autumn.

Are you really never more than six feet from a rat? Here's the 'science' on that

Red spider mites and webbing visible on plant leaves

These pests multiply fast - are your house plants at risk?

Waterlogged ground. Tim Sandall

Eight fixes to save your garden after weeks of heavy rainfall

Gardens of the Year 2026 - Best of the Best

Using a pruning saw to remove a thick branch of a dormant plant

Winter pruning hacks for bigger harvests and healthier trees

Drying clothes indoors

The truth about drying your clothes indoors

Gardener pulling bindweed off plants. Jason Ingram

Stop bindweed in its tracks: why you need to act now

A rain-wise garden. Paul Debois

5 ways your garden could be contributing to flooding

Cold snap warning: practical tips to rescue vulnerable herbs

Monty Don in The RHS and BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden

Monty Don's five lessons for dogs in gardens