The F&F photography competition 2010 is here, and it is huge. You could win a £70 voucher for photography lessons and a signed book from a top garden photographer, or a £20 Dobies voucher. Get snapping now.

Debbie Webber is in the middle of revamping her front garden. But she’s not sure what she should transform it into, and is asking F&F readers for help.

Don’t just plump for the common white passionflowers you see scrambling over every front porch in the land: as this month’s Collector’s Item feature shows, there’s more to this genus than meets the eye.

Purple, yellow or orange carrots? Find out which varieties we loved this year in our carrot taste test.

At F&F, we don’t really worship lawns. In fact, we think they’re normally pretty boring. So here’s our manifesto for the lovely, low-carbon lawn which will welcome wildlife and make you very, very happy.

The garden might be slowing down, but there’s plenty going on in the garden world. We’re also offering two readers the chance to review £50 worth of products from Victoriana Nurseries and our October blogging competition also launches today. Hoorah!

Fed up of waiting around for an allotment? No garden of your own? Don’t panic - here’s a list of gardens and organisations just waiting for your green fingers.

Here’s a gorgeous and tasty autumnal recipe from Vegalicious which makes the very most of your apple harvest.

The saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) is probably the most beautiful plant you’ll ever grow in your hot veg plot. Its beautiful, dreamy flowers and huge, molten-iron-coloured stamens are heart-breakingly beautiful. But that’s not all: this crocus is the source of that heart-breakingly expensive and utterly desirable spice, saffron.

A well-deserved award for one of our top writers, more discounts for F&F readers, lies about frugal gardening, all served up with a dash of peppermint. Here’s our round-up of the best of the gardening web this week.

‘Medlar’ and ‘bletting’ are the sort of words you pull out to impress your friends in the pub. But how much more impressive to grow one of these funny-looking forgotten fruits and eat the fabulous honey-flavoured flesh. Meet the odd-looking medlar.

Wayward Plants is an organisation which re-homes unwanted or unloved plants. And it’s stylish too.