Five of the best brunnera

Macplants is located near Edinburgh and offers a bountiful selection of carefully chosen, garden-worthy plants – good, robust varieties, as well as some slightly quirkier, unusual or newer options. Th

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THIS WEEK AT GLEBE COTTAGE

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

Originally grown in Tudor times for medicinal use, astrantias gained wider popularity as their unusual blooms, with star-shaped bracts surrounding an endearing dome of tiny flowers, were worked on by

Quite by accident, Anne Greenall discovered that hydrangeas flourished in her garden overlooking the Firth of Clyde and she went on to amass a collection of more than 200 varieties