Bare-faced beauty

Add structure, colour and foliage interest with pretty summer-blooming shrubs

Find room for some fragrant plants to liven up your summer garden

For many gardeners, midsummer is the highlight of the year when bountiful borders brim with blowsy blooms jostling for space. But creating planting palettes that are both pleasing to the eye and feel

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

Try our pick of the most beautiful plants you can buy now

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