Liz Zorab lists the eye-catching plants she hopes to add to her garden this year

From grasses to ferns and herbaceous perennials, these choice winter evergreens light up borders with colour and texture, says Sue Fisher

Apios americana , known as the potato bean ...

Stephanie Hafferty provides her pick of the more unusual perennials for tasty and nutritious meals

While the garden slumbers, the joyful blooms of winter aconites sparkle, scattering gold beneath trees and shrubs with their arrival

At a time when much of the garden sleeps, winter flowers are all the more precious for their scarcity; an irrepressible bunch, undaunted by wind, frost or even a blanket of snow. Many are small, yet t