Winning the TandM Giant Sunflower competition Mr Hope has some great advice and tops tips for you to grow your own giant sunflower
Follow our easy 'How To' Grow Potatoes guides to find out how to grow potatoes in trenches in the ground or in bags on the patio.
horticultural questions and answers 29th Oct - topics include: Overwintering sweet peas plugs, pruning olive trees, why peaches drop their fruit, growing vegetables in winter, growing mushrooms, yellowing bay leaves.
Wildlife play a vital role in the biodiversity of our gardens. Find out what you can do throughout the year to encourage wildlife in your garden.
Bulbs are a reliable and easy source of colour in the garden - find out how to plant bulbs in this handy video guide.
Horticultural question and answer session with our horticultural expert Sue Foster. Topics include: Pests and Diseases, when to harvest autumn planted potatoes, when to plant arum lilies, black bamboo cultivation tips, overwintering burgundy shamrock, runner beans.
Learn how to plant your bareroot trees and shrubs with our handy how to video guide.
Feeling the chill? Here are ten top tips on how to heat your greenhouse and protect tender plants over the winter. Find out what horticultural professional Sue Sanderson advises to help make your greenhouse heating more efficient, avoid high energy costs and reduce the impact on the environment.
Horticultural questions and answers 21st January - topics include: Growing melons, Pruning climbing fuchsias, Growing cut flowers for a constant supply, Wind breaks, Pruning clematis montana, Winter pansy problems
Keep on top of pruning, tidying and planting jobs to get your garden ready for spring. Now is also a great time to plan your garden and order plants and seeds€¦
Amaryllis bulbs are popular for their large flamboyant blooms. Naturally flowering in the winter and spring, amaryllis bulbs are often given as Christmas gifts. Growing amaryllis is so rewarding - they're easy to plant and with a little care can easily be encouraged to bloom again! Read on to learn…
What to sow in December: begonia, geranium, antirrhinum, laurentia, cyclamen, windowsill herbs, winter salad leaves, hardy broad beans, exhibition onions€¦
Gardeners are hoarders! Creative recycling can often produce some of the most inventive ideas and could save you a small fortune in buying the latest gardening kit.
Find out how to get rid of blanket weed that grows in ponds. Blanket weed can be a real problem when the water warms up during warm spring days.
Delicious ratatouille recipe, ideal for using up gluts of spare vegetables that you may have harvested from your garden.
Olives are very slow growing and require little pruning in their early years. The crown of the tree will normally branch naturally. Here's our guide to pruning olive trees.
Harden off half-hardy plants ready for planting in the garden. Harvest rhubarb and asparagus. Water young fruit trees well while they are putting on rapid growth.
Hanging baskets add a whole new dimension to gardening. Find out how to plant hanging baskets in our gardening guide.
Growing blueberries is really easy and can produce great results. Blueberry plants and bushes prefer an acid soil in a nice sunny or semi shaded position.
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Mrs Christine Simpson from Belstead Allotments in Ipswich explains why she wanted a composting toilet for the site and how she went about it.
Learn how to grow rhubarb in your garden. Understand the variety differences and find out the best way to grow the best rhubarb with TandM's guide.
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This is a really warming soup, perfect for a chilly day. We often use a teaspoon or so of dried, crushed chillies from a jar.
Are your viburnum leaves looking lacy and damaged? Viburnum beetle is probably the cause - read our tips to control them and limit their damage.
News Archive May 2011: Verbascum 'Blue Lagoon' at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Kate's wedding bouquet€¦
This page provides advice on plant scorch in your garden. Blackening of the leaf tips would suggest that the plants have dried out at some point. This is a common problem with plants that are grown in containers as they are almost entirely reliant on you for their water supply during dry weather...
Bedding plants don't have to be all limp, lacklustre marigolds and petunias. There's a wealth of newer, strong-growing varieties to transform your beds and borders into a reliable carnival of colour, from summer and beyond.
Take a look at Thompson and Morgan's picks of the top 10 plug plants to fill your garden with colour. Plug plants are a cost effective and easy way to fill your garden.
If you have ever experienced problems with seed germination or with pricking out and hardening your seedlings, we've put together all the possible reasons for these failures, and how to avoid them next year!
Clematis plants are often classified according to their pruning requirements. Read our 'how to' guide to find out the correct time for pruning clematis.
Learn how to create a classic, fragrant Sweet Pea garden. Follow the step by step guide at TandM from sowing to cutting.
Grow a fragrant hedge in your garden with our incredible Tree Lilies®. Find out more about our tree lilies® and how to buy them.
Free Bird Guide and Birdsong CD Inside The Telegraph
Buddleja Buzzandtrade; will grow in almost any well drained soil. And because it's a dwarf variety it will grow just as happily in a container on your patio.
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