With fens like these
The cottage garden at The Manor, Hemingford Grey, in Cambridgeshire, is filled with texture and colour. The vibrant frothy green of Alchemilla mollis provides a foil to bristling blue nigella, while the demure bells of campanula contrasts with big and blowsy peonies. Foxgloves and roses complete this Arcadian cottage garden scene, set to the gentle drone of insects among the blooms.
ENTRY OFFER Garden: 2 for 1 £6, single reduced to £4. Under-15s free. Opening details at greenknowe.co.uk Offer not valid on 23 July or 10 September.
Tudor rose
Borders billowing with perennials and flowering shrubs await you at The Priest House and Gardens in West Sussex. Both beautiful and functional, the gardens feature over 170 traditional herbs. The house also boasts its fair share of history. During the dissolution of the monasteries it was seized by Henry VIII. It later passed to Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleaves, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
ENTRY OFFER House and garden: 2 for 1 £6.50. Opening details at sussexpast.co.uk/ the-priest-house Booking recommended. Offer not valid on event days.
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We love June
We're cruising towards midsummer: this is a month full of love and abundance. Wherever you look there will be something in your garden that lifts the spirits and makes you glad to be alive. We have colour to cheer us, we have leaves that still have the bounce and freshness of small puppies, we have the first berries fattening up, there are birds frantically parenting very demanding broods of chicks, the bees are all over the place, it's prime barbecue and picnic season, and we have lawns as lush and green as billiard tables. What a month to fall in love.
Your wildlife month
The female will usually lay one clutch of up to eight eggs
An edible garden in pots
Join Lucy Bellamy in creating an edible container garden for all seasons, as she harvests what's ripe now and starts later-season crops
Garden craft with kids
Fill the summer holidays with fun nature makes for kids, including botanical printed t-shirts, seed sowing in upcycled food containers and a hanging home for beneficial insects. Jaime Johnson and family show you how
Secrets of a COLOURFUL GARDEN
Using a colour theme is an easy way to give any garden a strong, unified character - Nick Bailey shows you how
Indoor plants, outdoor treats
Break the rules and give your house plants a summer holiday, with Michael Perry's mixed pot display ideas
YOUR PRUNING MONTH
The first few weeks of summer are a good time to get spring-flowering plants in shape. Follow Frances' guide for best results
Gardening for wellbeing
As the pressures of modern living bear down, our outside spaces can provide soothing respite for our minds and bodies, says Arit Anderson
Your greenhouse guide to A fruitful summer
Get the best from your greenhouse fruit and vegetable crops this summer, with these tried and trusted growing tips from Adam Frost
Stars of the show
Agapanthus is the perfect midsummer plant, flowering with spectacular blooms from June onwards and, as Monty explains, it loves to grow in a pot
