This week... mahonias

Choose tough, evergreen varieties to bring colour and life to your plot all year round

Allowing plants to fend for themselves without staking builds resilience and creates relaxed billowing borders in this windswept autumn garden

REAL readers' gardens!

Alamy; Mark Diacono I’D very much like to ...

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week!

Award-winnng nurseryman John Massey has created a little piece of paradise in his sprawling eight-acre canalside garden – an oasis full of year-round interest