It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

What to plant, pot and prune this month, plus a few treats to buy and inspiration further afield

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl