As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

Editor Kim Stoddart explains how to allow plants to grow a little wilder for greater all-weather protection

Supercharge your spring with the brightest bulbs

I like unusual words and there are a couple that seem appropriate for this time of year. March, we know, is a fickle beast, where the weather can flicker from T-shirt to thermals in the course of a da

Advice and inspiration with Nige Eaton , horticulture expert at Moss & Moor, Ilkley

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