After scorching summers and sodden seasons, certainty is no longer part of the forecast. But with the right choices, your garden can bend rather than break. Greg Loades offers practical ideas to help you protect your soil, shelter your plants and create a space that works in sunshine, storms and everything in between

Make more plants this month by dividing perennials, sowing hardy annuals and planting summer bulbs

Kay Maynard explains how her first-ever garden has become a wildlife-friendly haven with year-round interest

Thinking ahead to a good crop of aubergines, ...

I’m bringing my summer stars

These days we try to leave the ‘mess’ of our ornamental garden for as much of the winter as possible for the sake of the biodiversity in our vital garden spaces and, therefore, the world at large. Now