Step into a magical winter garden in the Weald of Kent, where cyclamens, hellebores and crocuses add splashes of pink and purple to the white carpet of snowdrops

Are potted alstroemeria hardy? How do I grow yellow raspberries? Read on…

Rosie Irving celebrates an easy-going shrub that gives so much for so little effort

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

FACT FILE What A genus of architectural, evergreen and predominantly spiny-leaved shrubs from the barberry family (Berberidaceae), bearing remarkably luminous, highly fragrant flowers in autumn and wi

As the cold season sets in, it pays to get frondly with foliage! Val Bourne chooses some of the best to brighten up the plot