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

Add drama to your garden with potted exotics. Soak the plant, in its original pot, in some not-too-cold water. Then move the new, empty, pot into position; this saves you doing so when it’s full of he

Try our pick of the most beautiful plants you can buy now

Start deadheading the flowers in hanging baskets as soon as they fade. Snip them off at the base of the flower stem. This keeps them producing more flowers right through the summer, providing you reme

Keep those containers looking marvellous well into autumn, for wonderful colours and scents right through the seasons

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