Seasonal ideas for your outdoor space

Sometimes even trusty garden favourites need replacing, so embrace change!

Plantsman, designer and TV presenter Jamie Butterworth shares his failsafe planting combinations for different spots on your plot

From ramblers to floribundas, climbers to ground cover, plus top varieties to choose from, here’s your definitive winter guide

The sweet violet, Viola odorata, may be a diminutive flower, but its small, slightly asymmetrical, pansy-like flowers are highly fragrant. They open in early spring before most plants have even though

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