Wild in the country

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

I’M on a mission to introduce more alliums into my garden. These fantastic flowers are great for colour, structure and impact – and pollinators love them, too! Alliums are basically ornamental onions;

When summer beckons, it is answered by a chorus of glorious roses that fill an enchanting Isle of Wight garden, created from scratch by Derek and Louise Ness

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

There’s new hope for these beautiful wild flower areas, as we recognise their immeasurable value to the natural world

Originally a means of keeping a living record of garden plants, our 722 National Plant Collections–of everything from Abies to Zingiber –set the gold standard across the world. Charles Quest-Ritson meets some of the expert collection holders