The country’s Cape Floral Kingdom has incredible bloom diversity with around 9,000 species – and some make spectacular plants for our British gardens

If winter rains have made your garden off limits, it’s time to explore growing in a space where you can cheat the seasons – and escape to a new world

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REAL readers' gardens! Pruning roses A plant-packed suburban ...

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

After Jayne moved into her home with her son back in 2013, she immediately set about updating all the nuts and bolts – the boiler, the kitchen, the bathroom and en-suite. But, at the time, she didn’t