Back to basics

These expert picks for fragrant spring planting ensure your garden will smell as glorious as it looks

So alluring is the scent as it hangs in the cold air that no garden should be without a winter-flowering daphne. Charles Quest-Ritson picks the best

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

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

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

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