The 2025 tulip collections. Plus: Storecupboard basics 3 - essential gardening tips and tricks

This week: demystifying annuals and perennials, new bulb collections, a book giveaway, hot yellows in the garden, and a garden design trick

• I’ve designed four brand new tulip collections for you, all of which were still available at the time of publication.

• In this week’s HOW TO GARDEN section we’ll be taking a look at some more Storecupboard basics: if you’re a beginner gardener and you’re wondering about the difference between annuals, biennials and perennials, it’s all explained here for you.

• Before the Small Garden Design course starts again, I’m revisiting a design trick which will help bring attention to areas of your garden

• Plant list of the week: Hot yellow is the colour of September - I’ve broken down a planting design so that you can see how you might actually be able to use this colour in the garden. Will I convert the hot yellow doubters….?

• There’s another book giveaway of another of my all-time absolute favourite, indispensable garden bibles. If you’re a paid subscriber, just let me know in the comments below if you’d like to have a chance of receiving this book.