Mixed bunch of flowers including strawflowers

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.

Advice on growing and caring for cuckoo flower, in our Grow Guide.

Discover the third of six collections of brand new BBC Gardeners' World Magazine plant ranges.

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Advice on growing and caring for Diascia, in our expert Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing and caring for ageratum, in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing Abyssinian gladiolus (Acidanthera) in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for bee balm, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for Sanguisorba, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for flowering currant, in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing St. John's wort, in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing and caring for candytuft, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for cornflowers, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for stock flowers, in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing and caring for bugle, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for the wildflower teasel, in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing, planting and caring for abelias, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on planting and caring for star of Bethlehem flowers, in our Grow Guide.

Discover how to grow and care for heliconia, in our Grow Guide.

Advice on growing and caring for mandevilla, in our Grow Guide.

We pick of 12 of the best varieties of these prairie perennials.

All you need to know about growing philadelphus (mock orange), in our practical Grow Guide.

Looking for unusual tulips to grow? Look no further than these frilled and parrot varieties.

Expert Grow Guide on growing and caring for larkspur.

Discover some pretty erythroniums, or dog's-tooth violets, to grow in a shady spot.

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