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

I’m bringing my summer stars

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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Matt is Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy at The Royal Parks. A keen fruit, vegetable and house-plant grower, Anne was formerly the glasshouse supervisor at RHS Garden Wisley. Caroline Salis

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