True blues

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

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

It’s a hugely rewarding pursuit and not as complicated as some people fear

They might have started as beautiful newcomers, but some of our most impressive imports have turned into garden gate-crashers!

A heavenly flower border is a work of art, a living composition in which colour themes are finely balanced to wax and wane through the seasons

I’M on a mission to introduce more alliums into my garden. These fantastic flowers are great for colour, structure and impact – and pollinators love them, too! Alliums are basically ornamental onions;