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Late-Season Courgette Storage: Keep Them Crisp for Three Weeks

Late-Season Courgette Storage: Keep Them Crisp for Three Weeks

The Vegetable Patch
Physostegia virginiana

Physostegia virginiana: expert tips and planting advice

Garden Flowers
Why Your Autumn-Planted Garlic Keeps Rotting: The Drainage Fix

Why Your Autumn-Planted Garlic Keeps Rotting: The Drainage Fix

The Vegetable Patch
Malva moschata

Musk Mallow: varieties, planting and garden uses

Garden Flowers
Brown scale insects clustered along a weeping fig stem and leaf vein with sticky residue

Ficus benjamina pests: scale, spider mite and mealybug told apart

Indoor plants
Tabby cat sitting on a wooden floor looking up at a large potted weeping fig

Ficus benjamina and pets: what the sap does, and what it does not

Indoor plants
Secateurs cutting a weeping fig stem with a drop of white sap, prepared cuttings and a glass of water on a bench

Ficus benjamina propagation: cuttings, water or compost, and air layering

Indoor plants
Autumn Lawn Moss Explosion: Act Now Before Winter Lock-In

Autumn Lawn Moss Explosion: Act Now Before Winter Lock-In

Lawn Care
Kalimeris incisa

Kalimeris incisa: varieties, planting and garden uses

Garden Flowers
Spring bulbs in clay soil: the planting depths nobody mentions

Spring bulbs in clay soil: the planting depths nobody mentions

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Heliopsis helianthoides

Heliopsis helianthoides: varieties, planting and garden uses

Garden Flowers
No, autumn leaves don't enrich your soil — here's what they actually do

No, autumn leaves don’t enrich your soil — here’s what they actually do

News
Eupatorium maculatum

Joe-Pye Weed: expert tips for growing this tall garden favorite

Garden Flowers
Autumn fruit trees need water now — but most gardeners stop too soon

Autumn fruit trees need water now — but most gardeners stop too soon

News
Doronicum orientale

Doronicum orientale: expert tips and planting advice

Garden Flowers
Stop fertilising autumn-planted bulbs — the science says you shouldn't

Stop fertilising autumn-planted bulbs — the science says you shouldn’t

Garden Flowers
Chelone obliqua

Chelone obliqua: expert tips for growing turtlehead plants

Garden Flowers
Bare-root vs container fruit trees: which establishes faster this autumn?

Bare-root vs container fruit trees: which establishes faster this autumn?

The Vegetable Patch
Catananche caerulea

Catananche caerulea: varieties, planting and garden uses

Garden Flowers
I planted spring bulbs in clay soil — it actually worked

I planted spring bulbs in clay soil — it actually worked

Garden Flowers
Calamintha nepeta

Calamintha nepeta: expert tips for growing this aromatic herb

Garden Flowers
Boltonia asteroides

Boltonia asteroides: your complete perennial wildflower guide

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Asclepias tuberosa

Butterfly weed: expert tips and planting advice

Garden Flowers
Why Autumn Bulb Layering is Replacing Traditional Spring Planting

Why Autumn Bulb Layering is Replacing Traditional Spring Planting

Garden Flowers
Lily leaves marked with oval brown spots surrounded by pale haloes

Lily diseases: telling leaf blotch, basal rot and virus apart

Treating diseases and pests
Hands breaking white scales from a lily bulb over a tray of moist compost

Lily propagation: turning one bulb into twenty by scaling

Garden Flowers
Garden bed of cut-back lily stems covered with bark mulch under frost

Lily bulbs in winter: why cold is not the danger, and wet is

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Three terracotta pots of white and pink oriental lilies in flower on a stone terrace

Lily in containers: pot depth, planting and the feeding that decides next year

Garden Flowers
Bright red lily beetle on a green lily leaf with chewed edges

Lily beetle: how to identify it and stop it stripping your lilies

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Weeping fig in a terracotta pot by a window with fallen leaves scattered on the wooden floor

Ficus benjamina leaf drop: the seven causes and how to tell them apart

Treating diseases and pests
Tabby cat sniffing a vase of white and pink oriental lilies on a living room table

Lily poisoning in cats: symptoms, first aid and safe alternatives

Garden Flowers
Store your root vegetables in damp sand—not the fridge

Store your root vegetables in damp sand—not the fridge

The Vegetable Patch
Anthemis tinctoria

Anthemis tinctoria: varieties, planting and garden uses

Garden Flowers
Why hedgehogs are disappearing from gardens—and how autumn planting can help them return

Why hedgehogs are disappearing from gardens—and how autumn planting can help them return

News
Akebia quinata

Akebia quinata: your complete vines and ground cover guide

Climbing plants
Frost-damaged perennials: why cutting back now could kill them

Frost-damaged perennials: why cutting back now could kill them

Garden Flowers
Sternbergia lutea

Sternbergia lutea: your complete spring bulb guide

Bulb flowers
Stop harvesting pumpkins now – why early picking ruins flavour

Stop harvesting pumpkins now – why early picking ruins flavour

The Vegetable Patch
Galtonia candicans

Galtonia candicans: expert tips for growing summer hyacinths

Bulb flowers
Autumn bulb planting on clay soil: the drainage hack that actually works

Autumn bulb planting on clay soil: the drainage hack that actually works

Garden Flowers
Eremurus stenophyllus

Growing Eremurus stenophyllus: expert tips and planting advice

Bulb flowers
Zenobia pulverulenta

Growing Zenobia: expert tips for this fragrant shrub

Trees and shrubs
Vitex agnus-castus

Growing Vitex: Care, Uses and Pruning Tips

Trees and shrubs
Stachyurus praecox

Growing Stachyurus praecox: care tips and planting advice

Trees and shrubs
Itea ilicifolia

Growing Itea ilicifolia: expert tips and planting advice

Trees and shrubs
Hamamelis mollis

Growing Witch Hazel: care tips and seasonal guide

Trees and shrubs
I scarified my lawn for the first time — the results shocked me

I scarified my lawn for the first time — the results shocked me

Lawn Care
Enkianthus campanulatus

Growing Enkianthus campanulatus: care, varieties and garden uses

Trees and shrubs
Autumn Bulb Layering: The Planting Technique Gardeners Are Finally Mastering

Autumn Bulb Layering: The Planting Technique Gardeners Are Finally Mastering

Garden Flowers
Zauschneria californica

California fuchsia: expert care and growing guide

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Thalictrum delavayi

Growing Meadow Rue: expert tips and planting advice

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