When I entered the world of snowdrops over 30 years ago, I quickly came into contact with some formidable female galanthophiles. They often wore hats and they nearly always had a silver snowdrop brooc

Bursting into life in the depths of winter, snowdrops are little symbols of hope, a sign that spring will be coming. Thriving in damp soil, snowdrops are often found in clusters beneath trees or carpe

Just between us, let’s be honest: for much of the year this is quite an uninteresting plant. It does not make much of an impact while our gardens erupt with life in spring. In the heat of summer, it s

Emily Chandler, National Trust head gardener at Dunham Massey in Cheshire, on gardening in the cold and the best flowers for winter scent

These elite seasonal performers really ‘do what they say on the tin’!

When many other gardens have bedded down for the coldest season, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, is home to an unmissable winter spectacle, when its garden bursts into life as more than 500 varieties