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.

Transform your shady areas into wildlife havens, with these 11 wildflowers for shade.

Discover 20 gorgeous native wildflowers to sow and grow, including annual and perennial choices.

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Discover some of the best sweet peas to enjoy in a vase.

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Carol Klein reveals her favourite plants to fill your garden with flowers, year after year.

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There are more edible flowers than you might think – we recommend 10 to try.

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Find out all you need to know about growing cut flowers, with florist and flower farmer Cel Robertson

Alan Titchmarsh recommends plants for big impact in a limited space.

Discover eight tips for growing cut flowers in your garden, including pinching out, feeding and watering.

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Use this handy identification guide on some of the commonest British wildflowers.

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

Combine flowers and grasses to great effect, with the help of our inspirational feature.

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

Advice on growing and caring for strawflower, plus how to dry them to use in flower arrangements.

Discover 10 garden flowers that are good to eat as well as look at, in our guide.

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Discover five of the most reliable herbaceous plants in this feature, picked by Alan Titchmarsh.

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Discover plants with tall flower spikes that will add a vertical accent to your borders.

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Discover some key plants for a cottage-style look.

Discover 10 plants that thrive on clay soil, including roses and daylilies.

Many roses will thrive in pots – follows our tips on getting the best results.

Browse our selection of disease-resistant roses to grow in your garden.

All you need to know about growing bird of paradise plant, Strelitzia reginae, in our Grow Guide.

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