The days might be cold and grey but your outside space can still bring you joy – there are sturdy, vigorous plants that will fill it with beauty and heart-lifting colour…

How to mix perennials and grasses to stunning effect

The garden in winter can often seem like something to be endured rather than enjoyed for gardeners who dash to garden centres at Easter, departing with cars brimful of petunias and bags of compost. Bu

Brighten the dark days — and lift your spirits — with the blazing colours of dogwoods, bamboos and brambles

Once upon a time, most gardeners would start the process of ‘putting their gardens to bed’ in September. It was as though the garden had no importance; in fact, it disappeared from view for half the a

Right now, I’m pruning the roses. I hate them looking so straggly and forlorn, and he-who-has-opinions can’t bear their wayward stems trying to snag him as he makes his way to the shed. I feel the ros