Alys Fowler paints her Spring garden with plug plants and their heavy, pollen-laden flowers to attract the pollinators to her garden. She plants small plugs of lavender, rudbeckia and verbena which will eventually be covered in flower hosts for the bees. Six months later, in September, she shows how the plants have grown and explains how investing in plug plants now will guarantee a healthier garden in the future

Alys Fowler uses shrubs to brighten up those dull, shady places where other plants struggle

Alys Fowler plants raspberries and blueberries, and explains about the conditions they need

Alys Fowler peppers her garden with tulip bulbs in autumn for one of the easiest and earliest harbingers of spring colour

Alys Fowler plants daffodils and woodland bulbs in October and revisits them in April to reveal how they have brightened up the space

Alys Fowler looks at the best plants for your space and shrubs with varied seasons of interest that require little of your time

• Find the plants in the Guardian garden centre: Evergreen shrub collection ; Flowering shrub collection; Ground cover perennials; and Blueberry plant

Alys Fowler discovers how to make a cage out of willow sticks to help beans and peas flourish in communal gardens

Alys Fowler visits Ryton Gardens in Warwickshire to celebrate the different varieties and uses of the humble spud

Arborist Ben Jones guides Alys Fowler on a journey through our National Arboretum, Westonbirt in the Cotswolds, 600 acres of one of the most magical and important tree gardens in the world

Incredible Edible is changing the way Todmorden thinks about food, from growing vegetables in graveyards to sharing produce with the whole town. Alys Fowler reports

Alys Fowler harvests the first broad beans on her allotment and discovers a surprise delicacy in the garlic patch

Bare soil is an invitation for weeds to invade your allotment. Alys Fowler explains how to keep them at bay

Stop weeds wreaking havoc on your allotment, says Alys Fowler. Some need rotting down, some can go straight on to the compost heap - and some make a tasty lunch

Alys Fowler's new allotment is starting to take shape. This month she plants potatoes, experiments with 'lasagne gardening' and snacks on raw nettles

Allotment tenant and Gardeners' World presenter Alys Fowler explains how to use the best of the winter weather to dig up and compost common weeds and plant next year's garlic crop