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

Modest, alluring and versatile, Viola odorata, or sweet violet, is a small, hardy, herbaceous perennial that tumbles and scrambles close to the ground, forming dense clumps of dainty, heart-shaped, gr

Nicola Stocken extols the virtues of a group of plants that play a vital role in the garden throughout the year

It’s time to take a look at the wealth of stylish smaller conifers that give all-year colour and structure, says Sue Fisher

The sweet violet, Viola odorata, may be a diminutive flower, but its small, slightly asymmetrical, pansy-like flowers are highly fragrant. They open in early spring before most plants have even though

It is hard to overstate the compelling beauty of Bodnant Garden. Built into a valley with the majestic Carneddau mountain range as its backdrop, it is expertly woven into the landscape. The garden has