A day in the country

REAL readers' gardens!

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran

With expert broadcaster, author and long-standing AG columnist, Anne Swithinbank

Don’t listen to the chatter. It’s all nonsense. Yes, term has started, the evenings are shorter, and I saw advent calendars in the supermarkets too. But it’s not the end of the summer. Not yet. And ce

Monika Barry, head gardener at the National Trust’s Ham House and Garden in Richmond, talks autumn colours and the joy of an allotment

Our summer is silently slipping out just as September arrives. But its not done yet. Summer never leaves without providing us with an encore: an Indian summer with cool dewy mornings, gently warming u