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.

All you need to know about growing Streptocarpus (Cape primrose) in our Grow Guide.

Sunflowers are easy to grow from seed and fun for all the family. Find out how to grow them in our Grow Guide. From BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.

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We recommend beautiful and unusual sunflowers to grow.

Discover 10 beautiful and scented varieties of sweet peas to grow, in our guide.

All you need to know about sowing and growing fragrant sweet peas, in our practical Grow Guide.

Discover all you need to know about growing gorgeous thalictrums (meadow rue), in this practical Grow Guide.

We recommend eight varieties of elegant perennial, thalictrum, to grow.

All you need to know about growing tulips, from planting bulbs to selecting varieties.

Discover seven tough but beautiful species tulips to grow – they should come back reliably year after year.

We recommend 10 beautiful tulips to grow that will bloom in March and April.

Find out how plants like box, honesty and bluebell work with tulips in borders and pots.

All you need to know about growing common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, in our Grow Guide.

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

Find out how to grow wild and cultivate forms of verbascum, in our detailed Grow Guide.

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

All you need to know about growing veronica, or speedwell, in our Grow Guide.

Discover some pretty violas to grow - great for pots, window boxes and hanging baskets.

Discover everything you need to know about growing bright, cheery violas, in our practical Grow Guide.

All you need to know about growing violets, including African violets, in our Grow Guide.

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

All you need to know about growing viper's bugloss, in our Grow Guide.

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

Love wallflowers? We've picked our favourites to grow.

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