The late-summer elegance of verbena

THIS WEEK AT GLEBE COTTAGE

Advice and inspiration with Nige Eaton, horticulture expert at Moss & Moor, Ilkley

IT’S midsummer, and this is usually the season when gardens are supposed to look their best – brimming with colour, buzzing with life, weed-free and calm, relaxing places for lounging with friends or

Scented foliage and the hum of enraptured bees awaken the senses in a garden where monardas, with their shaggy blooms, are the stars

GARDENS / FOOD / WINE / TECH / BEAUTY

This is a pretty good representation of the spirit of July, the month of school holidays and full-blown summer. Gone are the refinements of June and we are into a riotous tumble of exuberance. Big lea