Plantsman, designer and TV presenter Jamie Butterworth shares his failsafe planting combinations for different spots on your plot

When Kamal Hussain moved into a mill-workers’ cottage in the village of Saltaire in Yorkshire, the tiny public-facing garden – by the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal – was little more than pavi

Shall I tell you how my pests and diseases fetish started?” asks Pippa Greenwood, with typical ebullience. “I was probably five years old and walked past a greengrocer that had an amazing array of ora

Jamie Butterworth is fast-emerging as one of the UK’s most exciting younger gardeners, cocreating the RHS Dog Garden with Monty Don OBE at the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, running a successful plant nursery, writing two books and presenting on BBC Gardeners’ World – and he’s still only 30. Amateur Gardening’s Sue Bradley first interviewed Jamie as an aspiring 18-year-old and the two recently met up again at the Garden Media Guild Awards.

I’m bringing my summer stars

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