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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.

Discover five tough roses that can cope with heavy clay, sandy and thin chalky soils.

Rambling roses are loved for their spectacular display of midsummer blooms. We've picked our favourites to grow.

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All you need to know about growing gorgeous climbing roses, in our detailed Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing the evening primrose wildflower, in our Grow Guide.

Find out how to grow better roses, with the help of our practical tips.

Floribundas are prized for their long season of colour – we pick 10 of the best.

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

All you need to know about growing a desert rose, in our Grow Guide.

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Discover some fascinating facts about this timeless classic, and practical tips for growing your best-ever roses, by Greg Loades

Find out how to grow the native shrub guelder rose, Viburnum opulus, in our guide.

All you need to know about growing rose of Sharon, in our Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing and caring for shrub and species roses.

All you need to know about growing and caring for rambling roses in this detailed Grow Guide.

Hybrid tea roses have distinctive large, 'pointed' flowers and come in lots of colours – discover some of the best.

Advice on growing and caring for rose campion in our Grow Guide.

Discover all you need to know about how to grow gorgeous rudbeckias in our expert Grow Guide.

Rudbeckias are stars of the late summer garden – we've picked eight of our favourites.

We pick 20 gorgeous salvia cultivars to grow, in a range of shades and colours.

All you need to know about planting, propagating and caring for all kinds of salvias, in our Grow Guide.

Discover all you need to know about growing scabious, in our practical Grow Guide.

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

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

All you need to know about growing Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum), in this Grow Guide.

Find out how to grow and care for spiraea, in our Grow Guide.

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