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

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

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

Pot them up now for early colour and free plants from the new shoots

Editor Kim Stoddart explains how to allow plants to grow a little wilder for greater all-weather protection