Around the garden

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

Give them a trim and feed so they’re ready for spring

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

Get your garden ready for the season and look forward to the healthiest growth and your best blooms yet!

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

Snip now and your flowers will thank you later as a small trim can work wonders, says Joe Swift