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Here are a few pointers on making your small garden into an oasis

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Big ideas for small spaces

Follow Tamara’s lead with easy, decorative plants for a fragrant floral haven

Gardening for It girls

Socialite Tamara Beckwith’s small city plot earns its keep with low-maintenance

Wormald's Week

Bedding plants, summer salads, cauliflowers and lavender

Garden follies

It’s amazing what can be done with a few mirrors, stained glass and things found in skips. Especially if you’re also a potter...

Weekend tips 05.07.08

Time for topiary, and advice on jacaranda trees

Vegging out

In an effort to arrest the spread of aphids, our gardener-in-training gets a taste of her own medicine

It’s fashion to run a little wild in your garden

Judge rules that chopping down a swathe of trees can count as weeding rather than forestry as he redefines the garden

Ten things you need to know about melons

How to find the right garden designer

Wormald’s week

Ten best horticultural designers

The Chelsea gold medalists you can hire for your own patch - if the price, and site, are right

Garden cuttings

Green is the latest garden trend

Good garden design isn’t all about brash, bright flowers. The latest trend is for a more restrained palette

Weekend tips

Corms, bulbs, and tending to figs

Vegging out

A let-down for our novice gardener as the snails fail to fall for her alcoholic offerings

Ten sumptuous Summer garden events

Jane Owen suggests some seasonal excursions to suit socialites and garden-lovers alike

The best in salad servers

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51 glorious garden websites

Times Online's gardening guru opens her address book to share her top pick of gardening websites

Vegetable gardening 

Neil Wormald’s week: asparagus

If you want to grow asparagus on the vegetable plot, then the crowns should be ordered as soon as possible

Plea for ‘historic’ vegetables

Gardeners are being urged to keep growing their favourite vegetables as old varieties are under threat new from EU regulations

Growing pains

Reflections on a dismal season on the vegetable patch

Vegging Out: Top of the plots

With fungus razing her pulses, our novice wonders which veg repay your efforts with interest

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Ten rules of eco gardening

Even small alterations in domestic gardens can make a big difference to the planet

Flower shows 

competitive vegetable growing is a dog-eat-dog world

Mine’s bigger than yours

It’s shovels at dawn at the village hall, as the vegetable showing season reaches its peak

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Flower show rival rustles prize bloomers

A pensioner who hoped to win her town’s floral display contest for the third time is unceremoniously nobbled by her rivals

The green talk at Hampton Court

This is one of the best Hampton Court flower shows in its eighteenth-year history, says Jane Owen

RHS Cardiff springs into life with the family touch

CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW

Chelsea Flower Show 2008

Roses, Irises and Pinks at Chelsea

A sneak preview of some potential show-stealers at this year's Chelsea Flower Show

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PLANT SEARCH

Plant search

Type the full name of the plant you wish to buy: e.g. paeonia lactiflora or search using the common name e.g. "Bowl of Beauty"

  

Great garden furniture

Lily swing doubles as a gorgeous piece of garden sculpture. Handmade by Stephen Myburgh in copper and stainless steel, it?s beautiful but not cheap at £3,500. Available from Fletcher & Myburgh (01420 588008; www.fletcherandmyburgh.co.uk).

Add style and comfort to your garden with the right furniture

The right furniture will add style as well as comfort to your garden

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    How to start a vegetable garden

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    Matt James' guide for beginner gardeners

    A year in the garden: tasks for every season

    Create a gorgeous garden with our month-by-month, week-by-week guide

    last year?s winner, created by Sorrell Grove ? the cottage garden with the Italianate area beyond

    Back Garden of the Year competition

    Stephen Anderton introduces this year’s search for the country’s best back garden, whether it’s an elegant urban roof terrace or a child-friendly rural wilderness

    Jane Owen is an author, broadcaster, speaker, designer and award-winning journalist specialising in gardens and garden history. Her current obsession is composting. www.janeowen.co.uk

    Jane Owen's gardening forum archive

    Times Online's gardening guru solves your horticultural dilemmas

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