Enjoy months of colour with shrubby salvias

If ever a group of plants should come with a warning, it’s salvias. Start with just one or two and before you know it you will be scouring nursery lists and leafing greedily through plant catalogues l

Plants are so clever at adapting to their increasingly hot, sunny and dry surroundings

Cut back, feed, water and remove reverted stems

Liz Zorab picks her favourite self-seeding and spreading plants for easier gardening

Hardy fuchsias bring jewel-like droplets of enduring colour delicately suspended in borders to brighten the September garden

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