As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

REAL readers' gardens!

Position logs randomly around garden borders rather than in neat piles to recreate the way they fall naturally from trees in the wild. You could artfully arrange them around spring-flowering plants or

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

Seeds, weeds, garden needs! REAL readers' gardens! Iona Chisholm ...