Some 68 per cent of British adults visit a garden centre each year with the hope of a brighter summer, according to the Horticultural Trades Association. We’ve all been there; filling the trolley with

To hide my new garden’s nakedness, I planted trees. Damson and mirabelle plum, ‘Discovery’ and reinette apples, two pears, a quince and a ‘Nottingham’ medlar. There was a purple-leaved filbert, a ‘Che

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

REAL readers' gardens! Pruning roses A plant-packed suburban ...

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out