The most colourful blooms
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If you’re into flowers, we’ve got a treat in store for you. We’ve scoured the web for brilliant blogs by writers who love to grow them, and brought them all into one place for you.

You’ll find bloggers who create stunning cut flower arrangements from their own gardens, give us the lowdown on what makes the perfect border, and show us how to collect and store seeds for next year’s blooms.

Everything you ever wanted to know about flower horticulture, right here.

The Blooming Garden

Stave off the autumn blues with this stunning arrangement from Chloris
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If you’re already mourning the passing of summer, now’s the perfect time to check out Chloris’ blooming garden blog. We think you’ll agree her arrangement of (very) late summer blooms looks stunning – especially with its tyrian purple palette and the inclusion of a ‘silly cow’ or two.

At the blooming garden, you’ll find an inspiring melange of stunning flower arrangements, rare plantings, and some of your old favourites, all well photographed and documented so you can try growing them yourself. Chloris says, do as the great Alexander Pope advised: “Consult the genius of the place” – an ethos she takes to heart.

Peonies and posies

Julie’s ‘Monday vase’ offers a mellow take on autumn
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Check out blogger Julie’s ‘Monday vase’, an inspiring year-round challenge to scour the garden to come up with a new flower arrangement each week. Lately, she’s evoked the muted tones of Keats’ “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ with a subtle piece based on the “lovely faded creamy lime heads”  of the hydrangea, Annabelle – and pears and tomatoes too!

Julie’s passion for growing, styling and photographing flowers makes her blog, a must whenever you’re in search of a little gardening inspiration and know-how.

Off the edge gardening

Can anyone name this clematis?
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Off-the-edge blogger Gill has an invitation for you: “Can I tempt you in with tales of gardens and gardeners, birds and beasties, with the odd glitter ball and occasional gymnastic move thrown in?” We suspect you won’t need your arm twisted. A fun, flamboyant, flower-filled read, this is a must for anyone who enjoys their blooms.

Gill was inspired to begin her blog after being pursued by her meat cleaver-wielding, hawaiian-shirted butcher in Devon – who as it turned out, just wanted to show her his gooseberry. What better reason, we say. And by the way – can you name this clematis?

The patient gardener

Could you leave all this behind?
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How many plants would you transplant from your old plot to your new? After fourteen years in the same spot, blogger Helen gives a photo tour of her beautiful garden, complete with banana grown from seed. But it’s a bitter-sweet moment because, poised to move house, she has some difficult decisions to make.

Here you’ll find thought provoking musings to pique your interest, plus some really excellent photography. Ever wondered how to create the perfect border? “Colour harmonies, texture, loose planting with minimum staking, and wildlife,” says Helen. Check out her post to see just what she means.

The gardening shoe

Sarah wonders whether it’s time to give annuals the limelight
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Blogger Sarah, wonders whether it’s time she gave annuals more of the limelight in her garden: “Tithonia rotundifolia ‘Torch’ has exceeded my expectation,” she says. ”This huge, glorious clump of shining orange blooms towers over the sunflowers.” If you’re looking for ideas for annuals to plant next year, this is the place to be.

A wonderfully chatty and informative blog, find out what happened when Sarah met her gardening hero, Roy Lancaster. Now in his eightieth year, she says he’s still full of vim, vigour and curiosity.

Rambling in the garden

Find out which beautiful vase Cathy uses for this lovely dahlia
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Find out what’s still blooming in blogger Cathy’s garden. It’s amazing there’s still so much colour – with sedum, comos, late roses and more, still in flower. Take a look at the surprise star of the show, a rudbeckia ‘Prairie Glow’, bought for £2.99 and which is “thriving like no other perennial rudbeckia has ever done in this garden”.

A thoughtful and contemplative writer, it’s so interesting to read about how Cathy chooses to display her cut flowers: “Today’s vase is a tribute to the dahlia it contains,” she says. The bloom in question – the dahlia ‘art nouveau’. The result is gorgeous.

Perfect pelargoniums

The delightful Dwarf gold leaf zonal pelargonium “Mimi”
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If fuchsias, pelargoniums, and geraniums are your thing, you’ve come to the right place. Not only does Gwen give you the benefit of her considerable experience growing and displaying these stunning blooms, she’s also on the committee of the respective societies.

But Gwen has more to offer than her specialist knowledge. A budding photographer, follow her as she joins her village garden club on a tour of Kew Gardens. Despite the dull weather, she takes some lovely snaps – especially her photo of ‘the hive’ sculpture.

Sally’s garden blog

Sally says to always have a pair of secateurs handy
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Do you eat any of the flowers you grow? If that sounds tempting, take a look at the flowers blogger Sally cut from her garden – from hosta leaves to fennel, you’ll be surprised just how many blooms can grace a plate as well as a vase or border.

A freelance garden designer and probationary member of the Garden media Guild, we recommend you read Sally’s blog and take her sound advice: “Always carry a camera, notebook,a pair of niwaki secateurs and a good waterproof”, she says, because you never know what you’ll find when out and about.

Lead up the garden path

Berries feed the birds and create a stunning visual display
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Our feathered friends rely on berries to get them through the winter, so why not take a peek at the wide variety growing in blogger Pauline’s half-acre garden in Devon? With berberis, rosa glauca, cotoneaster horizontalis and more, you’re sure to find some inspiration for your own bird friendly planting.

Excellent prose, gorgeous photography, and a superb garden make Pauline’s blog a must. And if you fancy visiting her beautiful garden in person, you’ll be glad to know she and her husband participate in the National Garden Scheme (yellow book).

Green tapestry

Anna’s dahlia has a hitch hiker
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Do you remember taking it in turns to be the ‘weather monitor’ at school? Blogger Anna says stepping out onto the school roof to check the thermometer and rain-gauge was an excitement in itself. Now years later, she’s refreshing her weather memory with an online course.

When she’s not holding her hanky aloft to determine the wind direction, Anna grows flowers and photographs her beautiful weekly ‘Monday vases’ – you’ll love them. After over 30 years working with young people, we think you’ll agree she deserves her chance to ‘chill’ in the garden, where she sometimes daydreams of an almost mollusc free plot…

The cynical gardener

June’s apple harvest…
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“Last year my total crop was three fruits, this year I will achieve five.” Cynical gardener, June says a combination of late frost and a windy June cost her the bulk of her apple crop. We’re sure you’ll sympathise – the fruit’s bland and tasteless too.

But judging by some of June’s excellent photos, it’s not all bad news from the garden – you’ll love her amazing picture of a pennisetum seed head – very psychedelic.

Gardens weeds and words

Never stare a gift horse (or hollyhock) in the mouth
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“If there’s one thing a gardener loves, it’s a free plant, particularly when sourced from someone else’s garden”, says blogger Andrew. To this end, he recommends always carrying brown envelopes about your person.

New to collecting and storing your own seeds? Andrew offers some great advice to get you started – like storing seeds in the fridge to slow their metabolic rate. Great photography, wise words…and yes, the odd weed indeed, this is a great blog for gardening enthusiasts.

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