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Grow flowers

Flowers make a garden. Here you’ll find grow and care guides for your favourite flowering plants, tips on how to extend the season so you have more flowers for longer, and advice on which flowers to grow in tricky spots such as dry shade. Want to help bees and butterflies? We have lists of the best blooms for them. Looking for a particular colour scheme? Browse our collections of red, white, orange and purple flowers. Or maybe you’d prefer a wilder, more natural look? We’ve got you covered for that, too.

All you need to know about growing a weeping fig (Ficus benjamina) in our Grow Guide.

Find out how to grow floriferous weigela, in our detailed Grow Guide.

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Find out all you need to know about growing Chimonanthus praecox in this detailed Grow Guide.

Find out all you need to know about growing witch hazel (Hamamelis), in our practical Grow Guide.

Discover 10 beautiful witch hazels to grow for scent and flowers in late winter.

Find out how to grow winter aconites, in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing lavender, including our pick of the best lavenders to grow.

Find out all you need to know about growing ceanothus (California lilac), in this practical Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing magnolias, in this detailed Grow Guide.

Find out how to grow our native English bluebell and how to tell it apart from the introduced Spanish bluebell.

All you need to know about growing and controlling Spanish bluebells.

All you need to know about growing brugmansia (angel's trumpets), in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing calibrachoa (million bells), in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know abut growing celosia, in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing Chinese lantern plant (Physalis alkekengi), in this Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing gardenia, in this Grow Guide.

Expert advice on growing gerbera or Transvaal daisy in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing goldenrod (solidago) in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing greater knapweed, in our Grow Guide.

Find out how to grow living stones, or lithops, in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing nemesia, in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing platycodon (balloon flower), in this Grow Guide.

Grow Verbena bonariensis from seed, for months of prairie-style, tall flowers that butterflies adore.

Advice on growing and caring for love lies bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus), in our Grow Guide.

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