THEY are often beautiful, frequently useful and forever fascinating, but they are also absolutely lethal. Now a new book, “The Atlas of Deadly Plants”, tells the weird, wonderful and sometimes downrig

This month, Lalage reflects on how she was a little too hasty in planting out pea seedlings, contemplates the benefits of companion planting and sets about bringing order and tidiness to her vegetable beds

There’s far more to your favourite garden plants than just their looks – many bear the names and stories of remarkable people

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Liz has chosen her top varieties that offer food, shelter, or both, to our feathered friends

Carpeting woodland in clouds of white star-shape flowers and filling the air with a heady, intense aroma, wild garlic is abundant in April. This bulb hibernates for most of the year before bursting fo