Garden designer Kathy Brown shares her top tips for cheery and stylish winter pots and baskets.

There’s no such thing as a dull winter garden when you can plant it up with the horticultural equivalent of glow sticks. Meet our fabulous flame-barked friends: dogwoods, willows and brambles.

Sharon Hockenhull created this gorgeous hot plot for famous chef Antonio Carluccio. She tells F&F readers all about this stylish kitchen garden.

Laetitia Maklouf created this beautiful west London back garden from scratch in just seven months. The author of The Virgin Gardener tells F&F readers how she filled her plot with such beautiful, sumptuous style in such a short time.

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.

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.

Isabelle Palmer is a passionate balcony gardener. For years she has grown many beautiful plants on her north London balcony, and she now shares her fabulous taste with other gardeners through her shop, The Balcony Gardener. She’s also kind enough to share the secrets of her success with F&F readers.

Julia Fogg designs stunning gardens across the South-East of England. This month’s Design Showcase focuses on three of her hottest designs, taking in a coastal garden, a London garden and a rural garden. Brace yourself for a plethora of plants and some very tasty landscaping.

Clematis create such a spectacle in the late summer garden, taking over where the roses have flowered earlier. Whilst June is for roses, July and August are for the late flowering Group 3 clematis including the viticellas from Europe, the yellow tangutica/orientalis types from Asia and the texensis from Texas. Plant any of these late [...]

Lavender is one of those classic-but-never-stale staples which draw a garden together. It certainly does a good job in my plot. I’ve planted nine bushes of Lavender ‘Hidcote’ (which, as far as I’m concerned is the only cultivar of lavender worth planting) along one side of the garden, between the path and the lawn. For [...]

Which roses would you like to grow? Too many names, don’t know which to choose? There is such a big difference between a small rounded rose that might only grow one metre high or wide and a rampaging rambler which will romp away to maybe 10metres. And it is even more confusing when the same [...]

Herbs are an incredibly useful feature in a potager, not least because many of them are evergreen and keep the hot plot looking fabulous in the depths of winter. But there’s another reason why you’ll want to plant as many herbs as possible: so many of them have very, very stylish leaves. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & [...]