• Inside your Garden News this week:
• Silk flowers take centre stage at Chelsea and Worcestershire asparagus festival axed
• Extreme weather solutions: what you can do to defend your plot from severe rain, drought, frost and wind
• Cottage garden favourite the lupin is our plant of the week, we reveal our favourites
• Radio 2's popular veg man Terry Walton predicts a late harvest as he finds his allotment is behind schedule
• Gardeners' World presenter Carol Klein returns from a trip to Switzerland bursting with ideas for Glebe Cottage
• Chris Beardshaw continues his weekly Chelsea Flower Show diary as the final week ticks by
• Champion veg grower Medwyn Williams' get's his onions straight
• Lots of jobs to do this week are explained, from planting irises and crocosomia to sowing herbs and getting a head start with veg
• Just pay p+p to receive 9 begonia 'Golden Shades' jumbo plugs worth £19.76, plus FREE hedychium and hemerocallis bulbs
• Win £100 worth of stainless steel gardening tools from Wilkinson Sword in our great competition
• And as always there are real-life gardening stories, our prize crossword, your letters, readers' questions answered by author and gardening blogger Nigel Colborn, all the latest news, opinion plus much more.

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