I like the slow-quick-slow burn of early spring, with the leaves unfurling slowly but surely. Some plants are decidedly cautious; whitebeams and catalpa won’t show themselves for weeks, while impatien

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Erysimum Rysi Copper One of the definitions of a wallflower is that of a shy and awkward person with whom nobody wants to dance: I am sure we have all felt like that at some point in our adolescence.

Kay Maynard explains how her first-ever garden has become a wildlife-friendly haven with year-round interest

I’m bringing my summer stars

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden… plus her diary for the week!