The best way to compost is to use a mix of ingredients in your bin or heap. Combine soft, leafy material, grass clippings and kitchen peelings (green waste) with chopped up woody matter, cardboard and ...

Visit some of the most beautiful gardens around the world with the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast. In our new series, Travel Tales: Gardens of the world, we’ll transport you to tropical ...

Zen gardens provide places for contemplation and relaxation in the whirl of busy modern life. They emerged as spaces for meditation around the fourteenth century in Japan. In Zen Buddhist temples of ...

Planting up a flower bed can seem a bit daunting to begin with. Initially, it’s important to consider factors such as the size of your bed, how much sun it gets, the quality of your soil and what kind ...

If you have limited space indoors, there is still a range of house plants you can buy to add greenery to your home. Succulents and cacti offer the biggest choice of small house plants, but there's a ...

House plants in the office can help to reduce stress levels, increase concentration and therefore productivity, and generally make the office a nicer environment to work in. The types of house plant ...

These fiery sun-lovers are ideal for a south-facing border. Crocosmias are perennials with multiple flowers on an arching stem that can be up anything from 50cm to 2m tall. They are available with ...

Creating beautiful planting schemes for your border is simple if you follow some key rules. The main tip is to choose plants that are suited to the conditions in your garden. If you want a spectacular ...

Choose from our list of 20 of the best plants to grow in your bathroom, whether it's cool, warm, humid or dry. From the experts at BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.

If you're looking for large cat-friendly house plants, why not try a Kentia palm or parlour palm?Or perhaps a hanging plant like string of hearts to improve the look of a shelf? There are also lots of ...

Bedding plants are used to create colourful container displays and fill gaps in borders, providing vibrant flowers or foliage that will last throughout summer. Most are also inexpensive to buy. Using ...

Roma tomatoes have small, plum or egg-shaped bright red fruits, and have been specially bred to have few seeds, unlike most tomato varieties, which makes ‘Roma’ fruit ideal for making into sauces, ...