If you go down to the park today, you’re sure for a big surprise. We found rainbow chard edging annual borders and black chilli plants striking a pose. Find out how parks are becoming hot plots.

If you’re looking for a drop dead gorgeous plant with plenty of vintage glam, Abutilon ‘Souvenir de Bonne’ is a true catch. It’s a little tender though, so make sure you pay attention to our growing guide.

A plant called Clivia, wild bramble crumble and how to get those stubborn green tomatoes to blush: it’s all here in F&F’s wrap-up of the top and tastiest gardening posts from the week.

Black mulberries are a fabulous fruit shrouded in folklore and romance. Here’s F&F’s guide to growing Morus nigra, as well as some stunning recipe ideas.

There was a time when almost no-one knew what a clivia was. Then ever so slowly, these South African natives infiltrated nurseries and florists worldwide, and now they’ve become de rigueur as bedding plants in frost-free areas. Today’s designer clivias have mostly been line-bred from a single species, Clivia miniata. These hybrids feature fans of [...]

Katherine Roper always wanted to design a beautiful vegetable garden. So she jumped at the chance to create one in the sunken walled garden of an Arts & Crafts house near Bath. As part of our Hot Plot series on good-looking kitchen gardens, here’s the tiny plot she designed.

In August’s Top of the Crops, Rebsie Fairholm sneaks a peek at a tomato with an identity crisis: the ‘Tangella’, which rather fancies itself as a tangerine.

Here’s a cute little plant to creep around the corners of your garden. Ryan Lewis gives us the lowdown on the Dragonmouth, Horminum pyrenaicum, a fabulous blue-flowered alpine.

There has been a definite theme for this month in the garden – rain and more rain. While this means the BBQ and Tandoor have been left unused it does mean the garden is beautiful and lush. August has really been the peak for crops in the garden with peas being by far the best [...]

” Mummy I fought the worm - and I won ! ” so said my four year old Olivia as she appeared around the corner of the house yesterday caked in mud and brandishing a yellow seaside spade. We’re in the process of clearing our front garden which is currently an overgrown mixture of trees and [...]

A final reminder for our blogging competition, golden beans, chamomile tea and mutant tomatoes? It’s all in F&F’s weekly wrap-up of the best gardening stories, posts and photos on the web.

…this gorgeous garden office from Decorated Shed. Just imagine working from one of these super-stylish, fabulously pretty offices, surrounded by all your homegrown veg. I had a little snoop around the Decorated Shed website the other day, and found plenty of wonderfully-designed garden buildings which sent me into a flurry of dreams about tapping away [...]