Thursday 23 October 2014

Gardening

Gardening news and advice from the Telegraph. Your source for gardening news, advice from our experts and help on how to grow plants and vegetables.

Latest Gardening Stories

Halloween: the world's spookiest plants

For Halloween, we've tracked down 10 creepy plants we really, really hope won't inherit the earth

Slow flowers: why British blooms are booming

Georgie Newbery is flying the flag for seasonal British-grown cut flowers

Mark Diacono hails a cottage-garden industry that’s bringing the cut-flower trade back home

Halloween events at spooky National Trust homes

Terrifying trails and gruesome tales: enjoy a haunting Halloween this year with the National Trust

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Gardening calendar: harvest your Halloween pumpkins

Sarah Raven shares her top tips for the garden this week, from a spot of deadheading to cutting down asparagus ferns

Giant pumpkins: in pics

When it comes to pumpkins, bigger is always better...

How to grow sweetpeas

Sow them now and fragrant sweetpeas will grow bigger and more beautiful next spring

Bring the harvest home: great conserving kit for gardeners

Cook it, jam it, juice it or dry it; here is everything you need to make a fruitful season last right through the winter and beyond. By Jean Vernon

Hedgehog hospital: meet some very prickly characters

Six-week-old Tyrion the hedgehog at the East Sussex wildlife hospital

Jane Dalton helps out at a hedgehog hospital and comes face to snout with a baby hog for the first time

Gardening calendar: insulate your greenhouse and protect pots

Our gardening guru Sarah Raven shares her top tasks. This week: take steps to stop winter moths attacking your fruit trees

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Gardening Advice»

Growing apples: a gardener's guide

Mark Diacono celebrates Apple Day this weekend by exploring the best varieties for eating, juicing, cooking – and planting

Wildflower meadows: how to create the field of your dreams

Nigel Dunnett in his Olympic Park meadow

Inspired by the work of Nigel Dunnett, I have been thinking of ways to improve the standard wildflower meadow

Compost tea: does it really work?

Compost tea, some say, keeps plants healthy and disease-free, but is it any better than adding fertiliser to the soil?

Gardening columnists

Helen Yemm

Gardening tips and advice from our expert

Francine Raymond

A focus on "home-grown style"

Bunny Guinness

Our expert landscape architect shares her gardening secrets

Tim Richardson

An irreverent commentator on all relating to gardens

Mary Keen

Our expert garden designer

Val Bourne

A plantaholic, hands-on-gardener

Stephen Lacey

A distinguished writer, broadcaster and horticulturalist

Gardening Picture Galleries»

Leaf collecting: the best hand tools

Picking leaves up with a rake or broom won't just help your garden look its best this autumn - it can keep you fit too, says Jean Vernon

What private gardens are worth saving for the nation?

Six glorious scented plants to grow... and six smelly ones to avoid

First signs of autumn: in pics

Telegraph GardenShop»

Telegraph GardenShop

Spring flowering bulbs from £2.99

Gardening calendar»

October garden events

This autumn's gardening events around the UK

90-second gardener»

90-second gardener

Watch Sarah Raven's video guides to this season's gardening tasks

Grow your own»

Fruits that are just peachy

Nothing beats a peach, and the great news is, they are getting easier to grow in Britain

Fruit and Vegetables»

A gardener's guide to growing winter vegetables

There’s no excuse for a bare veg plot, even at this time of year. But don’t worry, some crops are best started now

Raymond Blanc's veg patch – where food tastes like it used to

Patrick Laroche's vegetable sculptures come to London

Grow damsons for luscious jams and moreish brandy

Gardens to Visit»

What private gardens are worth saving for the nation?

Sir Roy Strong is said to be devastated after an offer to bequeath his garden to the National Trust was rejected. We take a look at other private gardens that are worth saving for posterity

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The great tradition of kitchen gardens

Thorp Perrow: a fiery autumnal display

Dell Garden: a living library for good plants

Organic Gardening»

Telegraph GardenShop»

Telegraph Gardenshop: Showy Salvias

Showy salvias are an eye-catching magnet for bees.

Telegraph Gardenshop: Autumn Crocus

Enchanting Autumn Crocus

Telegraph Gardenshop: Irises

Beguiling Irises dazzle in winter.

Allotments»

Thane Prince: 'There’s something quiet and proper about jam-making'

Thane Prince with a jar of jam.
Photographed at home in London.
Thurs 3rd July 2014

Thane Prince, the fearsome 'queen of preserves’ and star of the BBC's Big Allotment Challenge, on why she isn’t worried about how much sugar the British consume

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