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I don't know whether the BBC was specifically trying to start a squabble, but last week it defo did so. Forget the very mild controversy over Benefit Street or that tiny bit of gossip you may have heard about Strictly's Susannah leaving her husband: this is the big one. Yep, if you want to get...

Last month, vegetable gardeners may have been able to get their broad beans in, as well as their onion sets. This month you could be sowing beetroot, carrots, chard, parsnips, peas, radish, spinach and spring onions. If the soil is workable and not too wet, all these can be sown direct into...

Gardens to visit this weekend include the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7, which opens for the National Gardens Scheme today (12-5pm); admission by donation. Set up in 1995, the garden is made up of different habitats representing deciduous woodland,...

A workshop on the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was held on March 31 and 01 April in Marrakech, Morocco.Continue reading...

My friend Kat and I are standing outside Helen's house, looking at her magnolia. It's Magnolia stellata, its elegant long stems covered with white buds, reaching out to the path and the party wall. "It's lovely, but it makes me feel sad," I say to Kat, because Helen planted the magnolia in...

We talk to Cleve West about the inspiration behind this year's M&G garden...Continue reading...

Tommaso del Buono and Paul Gazerwitz talk about their return to the RHS Chelsea Flower ShowContinue reading...

Win an iPad Mini in our online competitionContinue reading...

Win a personal tour of the BrandAlley garden with its designer plus BrandAlley vouchersContinue reading...

New legislation forbids the sale of five aquatic plants that are not native to the UK in a bid to outlaw invasive speciesContinue reading...

The country’s leading gardening charities, the RHS and the National Gardens Scheme (NGS), have joined forces to create a programme.Continue reading...

My friend Kat and I are standing outside Helen's house, looking at her magnolia. It's Magnolia stellata, its elegant long stems covered with white buds, reaching out to the path and the party wall. "It's lovely, but it makes me feel sad," I say to Kat, because Helen planted the magnolia in...

Writers were once allowed to be obsessive about the tools of their trade. It provided wonderful grist to the biographical mill. Did this author grind powder to make his own ink? Would he only use HB pencils to liberate his prose? Was his paper lined or unlined? Did he, like the magnificent Tom...

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Win show tickets and a tour of the Royal Bank of Canada garden with the designer Hugo BuggContinue reading...

Enter the M&G competition to win a two-day break, including exclusive access to the RHS Chelsea Flower ShowContinue reading...

The designer of the RBC Waterscape garden explains the message it will be bringing to Chelsea visitorsContinue reading...

I can't claim to be a particular expert in the language of getting wasted. Out of it, off your face, plain ole drunk: whatever you wanna call it. My friend Rose once told me on a Friday night she was "going to Taiwan-On this evening". I thought she was off to a glamorous new restaurant...

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The dawn chorus is at maximum decibels (thank you rooks for the bass notes – they are the best bits), the first brimstone butterfly has made its wobbly way towards the primroses, and huge bumblebees are fumbling around in the pink flowers of the nectarine, which is in full flower against the...