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…

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

Liz Zorab lists her favourites for early winter interest and scent

Long dismissed as garden relics, these easy-care classics are now the go-to for effortless colour and pollinator appeal

The flowers that grace the garden in autumn and winter tend to be modest, demure little things. Although the glamorous, fragrant blooms of Camellia sasanqua are not short on delicacy, low-key they are

If you want to plant a light woodland–perhaps underplanted with wild primroses and bluebells–or are looking for a luminous specimen tree for the garden, consider a birch, advises Charles Quest-Ritson