Your guide to lawns

September, with its cooler temperatures and moist warm soil, is one of the best times of the year to make a new lawn. Grass seed germinates fast now giving quick results; about 7 to 10 days is usual.

We may have invented the flower border, but planting them remains one of the trickiest things to get right. Charles Quest-Ritson looks at the secrets behind the very best

REAL readers' gardens!

REAL readers' gardens!

There’s a front garden I pass that always stops me in my tracks. It contains grasses, erigeron, a large silver birch and a water trough. Large clumps of rosemary spill onto the pavement. It doesn’t ha

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