Use our helpful spotter’s guide to identify some commonly unwanted plants, with links to advice, to help you decide whether to keep them and, if not, how to get rid of them. What is a weed? A weed is ...

There are numerous clematis species, hybrids and cultivars, but for pruning purposes they are split into three distinct pruning groups based on the time of flowering and the age of the flowering wood.

As temperatures drop, now is a good time to bring those precious plants inside but also consider how you can best use your ...

On a farm on the edge of Bristol, Simon Maughan has been looking after 40,000 Christmas trees for the last 25 years. Read his ...

Is it true that only large, untidy “wildlife gardens”, full of native plants and with lawns replaced for wildlife meadows, are good for wildlife? The answer is no, says urban ecologist and this year’s ...

RHS Flower Shows take centre stage in fantastic locations across the UK, making them an unbeatable day out for your group Our sensational RHS Flower Shows and Festivals come to life every year, packed ...

Straightforward to grow and ideal for beginners, French beans produce good harvests in a relatively small space and are highly decorative too, with pods in a choice of colours. There are compact ...

Melons are tender trailing plants that need lots of summer warmth to produce their sweet, juicy, aromatic fruits. They’re best grown in a greenhouse, although a few varieties may fruit outdoors in ...

Pioneering social reformer Octavia Hill (1838–1912), a founder of the National Trust, believed that ‘the healthy gift of air and the joy of plants and flowers’ were vital in everyone’s life. She ...

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.

Rosa can be deciduous or semi-evergreen shrubs or scrambling climbers, with usually thorny stems bearing compound pinnate leaves and solitary or clustered flowers. Flowers may be followed by showy red ...

Lilium are bulbous perennials with erect stems bearing whorled or spirally arranged leaves and terminal racemes or umbels of bowl-shaped, trumpet-shaped, funnel-shaped or turks cap shaped flowers, ...