The high climbers

In the wild, climbing plants often grow together naturally. You’ve only got to look at a British woodland to see the native honeysuckle and clematis in a wild tangle of scent and colour. And more wide

Add structure, colour and foliage interest with pretty summer-blooming shrubs

Learn to grow this most classic of garden plants, which boasts beautiful flower flourishes in late spring

It took me a while to love roses as a plant. I had always admired the flowers in the kind of knee-jerk way that most of us love sunsets or the song of a blackbird, but I had no feeling for them as pla

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Early-blooming shrubs need a good chop back now to give them time to rejuvenate over the summer months