British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for summer pruning wisteria. He says pruning now will result in bigger and better flowers next spring.

Finalists from this year's Daily Mail's National Garden Competition shared the stories behind their plots. The winning garden is set to receive £2,000 and a coveted blue plaque.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for managing ponds this season. He advises removing dying vegetation to improve conditions.

British gardening expert Monty Don shares his advice for growing thistles. He says creeping thistle which troubles most gardeners have seeds that are excellent food sources for finches.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice on gardening now to plan for spring.

Claire and Robert Bailey-Scott, 43 and 57, from Gosberton, Lincolnshire, have transformed their garden and won the Daily Mail National Garden Competition.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shares his advice on how to prepare your plants for the winter.

British gardening expert Monty Don says that you should plant Miscanthus grass in your garden to add splashes of colour and style on the darker days of the year.

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week. He said homeowners can plant 'anything hardy' and should keep dead-heading dahlias so that they stay in flower until the first frost.

Nigel Colborn shared advice for keeping perennials young and healthy. The British gardening expert recommends digging up mature plants and gently shaking soil from the roots.

Nigel Colborn shared advice for re-planting rhubarb to boost production. The British gardening expert recommends re-planting baby rhubarb slips in a new piece of ground.

British gardening expert Monty Don has shared his advice for growing squash. He advises those who have sandy or chalk soil, or live in an area of low rainfall to use alot of compost or manure.

Tree ferns, which are easy to transfer because most of the roots are in the stem, are excellent plants to put in your garden's damp and dark places. Monty Don also said that they are easy to move.

Nigel Colborn shared advice for taking root cuttings to produce new plants. The British gardening expert recommends removing thicker roots and re-planting.

British gardening expert Monty Don, shared advice for growing trees in gardens of any size. He suggests paying attention to the trees in your area to get ideas for what can thrive in your own garden.

British gardening expert Monty Don shares his advice for growing red cabbage. He said the vegetable is as much part of his Christmas as the lights on the tree.

Nigel Colborn picked out a selection of the best gifts for green-fingered loved ones this Christmas. British gardening expert suggests a traditional gardening trug and sturdy carbon-steel shears.

British gardening expert Monty Don revealed a number of the gardens he visited while filming his American Gardens series, which starts this Friday on BBC2.

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for thriving wisteria this summer. The British gardening expert recommends shortening stumps this month to prevent emerging leaves from hiding flowers.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing Moth Orchid's, including purchasing better quality soil than what is already in the plant pot.

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for using lilies as enchanting patio pot plants. The British gardening expert recommends keeping the plaint in moist compost with access to sunlight.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for planting sweet peas, pruning shrubs and trimming violas this week.

The results of the second annual Wildlife Census, where Weekend Magazine asked its readers to record species spotted in their gardens last year, are in. It looked at 58 creatures commonly found in Britain.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shares his advice for increasing the number of snowdrop clumps in your garden.

Nigel Coleborn shares his advice for sowing courgette seeds and pruning your clematis. The gardening expert also named the plant of the week as the Dutch Flower Record.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for removing last summer's shoots to ground level. He also answered a question on a young Japanese cherry tree.

Social distancing has coincided with the busiest time of the year for gardening. Ten anxiety-busting things to do in the garden in the next few weeks include sowing seeds and potting.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn says how gardening is the perfect medicine in uncertain times such as the coronavirus outbreak. He said people should finish overdue winter tasks.

Nigel Colborn shared his advice for nurturing ponds as the days become warmer. The British gardening expert advises removing dead or damaged stems and looking out for weeds.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for managing this year's near-hardy perennials. He advises pruning away last year's growth.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for people growing their own food in their gardens during the coronavirus lockdown.

Now is the time to deal with winter jasmine. Though spectacularly beautiful with cheerful yellow flowers from November to March, this shrub is ferociously invasive.

Camellias are giving a wonderful show this year, but it will soon be over. After flowering has finished, give each shrub a vigorous shake to dislodge any dead blooms.

This is a good weekend to sow pumpkin, gourd, courgette or marrow seeds directly outdoors. And it’s by no means too late to sow turnips, beetroot, runner beans, spinach or chard.

This is a good time to refresh compost if you grow camellias or azaleas in containers. Ericaceous compost loses acidity — especially when hard water is used.

This year’s winter was abnormally dry in many regions. And now, just when growth should run at top speed, it’s drier still. We’re heading for a drought. For gardeners, that’s a disappointment.

South Sudan is the 'most vulnerable' of the countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experts said, where 1,522 people have died of Ebola since the outbreak began in August.

The explosion, at the Vector laboratory in Siberia, left a worker with second and third degree burns. The lab is one of two places in the world which houses the smallpox disease.

Kate Broderick, 42, from Scotland, has been fighting infectious diseases for more than 20 years. She is working with colleagues at company Inovio, San Diego, to develop a vaccine.

The trial, called Discovery, includes 3,200 patients who have been hospitalised from the killer virus in the UK, Spain, Germany, France, Sweden and Luxembourg.

Melinda Gates says the world will be permanently changed by the coronavirus. Gates said she believes it will take 18 months for a vaccine to become available.

Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted the drug approved for use against COVID-19 by the end of the month despite conceding it had side effects which caused birth defects.

Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete again despite being found guilty for the manslaughter of Reeva Steenkamp, according to International Paralympics Committee chiefs.

The parents of Reeva Steenkamp have accused Oscar Pistorius of lying in court after repeatedly telling the judge he believed the model was an intruder.

The South African double-amputee has been found guilty of culpable homocide after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home but has not yet been sentenced. 

Oscar Pistorius's defence lawyer has repeated claims that a ruthless prison gang leader has threatened to 'take out' the Olympian if he is given preferential treatment in prison.

News of the unlikely partnership was revealed in a letter of complaint to prison authorities by Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir after a treadmill and exercise bike used by the pair were moved.

A video has emerged that claims to show Oscar Pistorius playing football in a prison yard with a notorious underworld criminal, who was last month charged with murder.

The extraordinary footage appears to show Pistorius enjoying a penalty shoot-out competition with Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir at the Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria.

The Supreme Court of Appeal in South Africa will hear the state's appeal against Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius' six-year murder sentence on November 3, it was announced today.