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Gardening magazine. Mid-June is the perfect time to brighten up borders and replace tired and faded displays of spring bedding. Toby Buckland is removing wall-flowers and digging up spent tulips, and has plenty of ideas for colourful replacements which will give dramatic flowers and foliage well into the first frosts of autumn.

There's plenty of summer gardening advice for lawns, fruit gardens and shrub care from the experts at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley, as well as a visit to Great Dixter in East Sussex where head gardener Fergus Garrett tells us how the gardens there have progressed since the death of the owner and one of the UK's most loved gardeners, Christopher Lloyd.

Alys Fowler is busy in the cutting garden, planning to extend the harvest from autumn into winter by planting out colourful chrysanthemums and blousy dahlias for late summer bouquets.

Carol Klein is at Glebe Cottage admiring the incredible umbrella-like flower structure of the carrot family. It's a diverse clan that includes the prickly sea holly, that cottage garden favourite, the astrantia, as well as the humble carrot amongst its members.

When handling hellebores, it is advisable to use gloves as the sap can irritate the skin.