A growing love of dahlias

Kim O’Brien outlines some of the best planting partnerships for bold and beautiful borders

It took me a while to love roses as a plant. I had always admired the flowers in the kind of knee-jerk way that most of us love sunsets or the song of a blackbird, but I had no feeling for them as pla

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

The summer show is warming up – and plants just want to grow. Harness that energy now to enjoy flowers, food and pollinators

I’M on a mission to introduce more alliums into my garden. These fantastic flowers are great for colour, structure and impact – and pollinators love them, too! Alliums are basically ornamental onions;

Colour-drench your plot all summer using a shrewd selection of splashy bedding plants