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A beginner's guide to gardening

Hands in the dirt, soft breeze on your face and sweet scents swirling around you: gardening is the best hobby to get into. We've dug up the best tips for beginners.
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Tom Stuart-Smith's dos and don'ts of gardening

The landscape architect and garden designer known for his naturalistic and resilient planting offers advice on good gardening
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Butter Wakefield's dos and don'ts of gardening

The sought-after garden designer offers her principles for good garden design
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The most common garden design mistakes – and how to avoid them

Garden designer Lottie Delamain considers the mistakes gardeners are most likely to make when planning a new garden, and advises on how to avoid them
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The garden trends to know for 2024

Clare Foster tests the pulse of the garden design world to see what’s trending this year and finds that designers and their clients are tuning in to an increasingly wild aesthetic
How to start a kitchen garden

How to start a kitchen garden: what to do in January

In a new series, our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this first instalment, follow her as she prepares the ground
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Monty Don on gardening without a garden

In an extract from his new release, ‘The Gardening Book,’ Monty Don details how we can all enjoy gardening, even if we have no garden to speak of
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Now is the time to plant topiary - here's how to get it right

How to make topiary look tremendous – and, crucially, not twee
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How to help wildlife in your garden this winter 

Including weekend activities for nature fans, big and small 
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How to make your garden a force for environmental good

Know your limits, reuse where possible, and start your plants from seed: Lottie Delamain advises on how to make your gardening practices as environmentally friendly as possible
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From wildflowers to garlic pest repellent: how to make your garden better for the environment

Practical advice from the artists involved in the Hayward Gallery’s Dear Earth Exhibition (and the art installation you can create to conserve water)
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“I'm not obsessed with tractors”: the pleasures and pains of being a part-time farmer

With flexible working becoming more and more a feature of life and the cost of food soaring, is part-time farming the solution?
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Starting a garden? These are the things to consider

In the introduction to her new field guide to flowers, Super Bloom, gardener and plant pioneer Jac Semmler lays out her ground rules for beginners
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What it's really like to be a garden designer and how to get there

Garden designers including Butter Wakefield and Marcus Barnett share useful advice and insight for anyone considering the same career
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How to prune roses 

As part of our series on rose care, Hazel Sillver looks at how to prune roses and when