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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.

Red and crimson dahlias add a splash of colour to any border or pot. Here are eight of the best to grow.

Browse our choice of beautiful dahlias to grow, including cactus and single-flowered types.

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Greg Loades explores the origins of this flamboyant flower and explains how to keep them in bloom for longer

Dramatic and intense – we pick some of the best dark-leaved dahlias to grow.

Alan Titchmarsh loves dahlias. Discover his pick of the very best to grow.

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

All you need to know about growing dierama (angel's fishing rod), in our Grow Guide.

Find out all you need to know about growing echinops (globe thistle), in this detailed Grow Guide.

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

Discover everything you need to know about shade-loving epimediums in this step-by-step Grow Guide.

Discover nine beautiful epimediums to grow – perfect for ground cover in a shady spot.

All you need to know about growing erigeron, or fleabane, in our Grow Guide.

Find out all you need to know about growing eryngiums, in this detailed Grow Guide.

Find out all about growing forget-me-not and water forget-me-not in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing beautiful foxgloves, in our Grow Guide.

We've picked 10 of the best foxgloves to grow.

Find out how to grow eye-catching foxtail lilies (Eremurus), in our detailed Grow Guide.

We pick six stunning ways to combine foxgloves with other plants.

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

Take a look at some of the best fuchsias to grow, including hardy upright and trailing varieties.

All you need to know about growing hardy fuchsias, plus varieties to try, in our Grow Guide.

We pick some of our favourite hardy fuchsias to grow, and provide growing tips.

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

All you need to know about growing gaura (Oenothera lindheimeri, previously Gaura lindheimeri), in this detailed Grow Guide.

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