Gardening for beginners (2024)

New to gardening? Discover the joy of growing your own ornamental plants and edible crops, by following our step-by-step guides and practical videos

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Designing and planting

Get to know your garden, learn planting styles and techniques, and try your hand at garden design.

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Gardening for beginners: Know your plot

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How to design a garden

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Gardening for beginners – Planting styles

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Gardening for beginners: combining plants

Grow your own fruit and veg

Learn how to start a veg plot or allotment and get tips on the best veg to grow.

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Starting a new vegetable patch

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Tips for a low-maintenance veg plot

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How to start an allotment

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How to grow vegetables – beginner veg to grow

Wildlife gardening

Attract birds, bees, bugs and butterflies to your garden.

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How to grow hebes

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Alan Titchmarsh’s tips on creating a wildlife-friendly garden . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Eight birds to look out for during the Big Garden Birdwatch . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nature

Nine of the best bird box cameras in 2023

DIY

Creating a wildlife pond for a garden

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Fast-growing trees

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£18.95 £24.95 Supplied in 4.5ltr pots ready to plant out

From late winter to early spring, large white, peony-form flowers with a golden boss of stamens, appear on this handsome, evergreen shrub. This reasonably fast-growing plant has an upright habit and can be used as a stand-alone specimen or incorporated into a mixed or shrub border. These shrubs are currently full of blooms with lots more buds ready to open into the spring!

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£14.99 £24.99 Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot

Arbutus unedo is a large, bushy, evergreen shrub with rough bark and dark green leathery leaves. Its bell-shaped autumn flowers resemble those of lily of the valley and have a strong honey fragrance, while its fruits resemble strawberries or lychees. Both the flowers and fruit are found on the tree at the same time, making it a particularly lovely specimen, especially in small gardens.

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£7.99 £12.99 1 x 2L pot with 60cm cane

This beautiful winter flowering Jasmine is a completely reliable and easy to grow shrub that will fill your garden with colour in the depths of the dreariest months of the year. If space is limited in your garden, Winter Jasmine can even be grown in large patio pots and containers.

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No Fuss Guides

Practical videos featuring expert advice on the basics of gardening and beyond.

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Red spider mites

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Win a Cadac gas BBQ and paella pan, worth £360

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How to grow Philodendron ‘Pink Princess’

Podcast

Choose tools

Sharpening garden tools

Travel and events

BBC Gardeners’ World magazine weekends at Warner Leisure Hotels

Travel and events

BBC Gardeners’ World magazine weekends at Warner Leisure Hotels

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Seven of the best dahlias

Maintain the garden

Watering plants effectively

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Protective gardening gear and equipment

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Essential kit for gardening

Practical video advice from Alan Titchmarsh

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Essential kit for seed sowing

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from £9.99 Available as a bare-root or 3L pot

Winner of the prestigious ’Rose of the Year’ award for 2003, this old-fashioned rose is a real must-have for any garden, performing admirably in pots, beds, or borders. Blooms grow in clusters against a bed of rich green foliage with a wonderful perfume that sits on the summer breeze.

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Gardening for beginners (2024)

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