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

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

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

REAL readers' gardens!

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

In spring, a beautiful eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis), its branches clothed from trunk to tip with cerise-purple flowers, steals the show at Sue Martin’s cottage garden in Cranbrook, Kent. It