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Strawberry plants naturally produce runners as they start cropping. These are creeping stems with small plantlets spaced along their length. Knowing when to remove them and when to use them will keep your plants healthy and your harvests strong.

Remove runners from young plants

If your strawberry plants are young and you don't need more plants, ...

Lupins are hard to beat for early summer impact. Their tall, rocket-shaped flower spikes rise above neat clumps of foliage, bringing strong colour to beds and borders from June to July.

They were once the centre of national attention. In summer 1937, more than 80,000 gardeners travelled to a West Midlands nursery to see a new strain known as the ‘Russell Hybrids’. Bred...

May is an ideal time to sow salad crops. With the warmth of early summer, leaves will be ready to harvest over the coming months, making it easy to pick fresh salads for everyday meals.

Salad leaves are simple to grow and suit almost any space. They can be sown in pots, windowboxes, growing bags or directly into the garden. Most are quick to germinate and you should be...

Some plants are generous with their flowers, blooming for months rather than weeks. Many continue right through summer and into autumn because they fail to set seed. This usually happens for two reasons.

Some plants are sterile. Even when bees visit in numbers, the flowers cannot be pollinated. This often occurs when two closely related species hybridise. Their pollen ...

Bearded irises earn their place in the garden long before they flower. Their grey, sword-shaped leaves stand upright for months, giving strong vertical structure in borders. When the flowers arrive, they are unmistakable, with three drooping falls and three upright standards in a wide range of colours.

All shapes and sizes

The ‘bearded’ part of ...