Top 10 tulips for blooms

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

Create a long-lasting container display with plants that will return year on year

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

A heavenly flower border is a work of art, a living composition in which colour themes are finely balanced to wax and wane through the seasons

For many gardeners, midsummer is the highlight of the year when bountiful borders brim with blowsy blooms jostling for space. But creating planting palettes that are both pleasing to the eye and feel

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week