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The garden has given me much joy this year, though it’s not been without its challenges! Especially the weather, with so little rain for long periods. But those two months of drought made little impac

I love this time of the year with its glorious autumn colour. It’s when my borders are full of saturated reds and purples. Now my perennial plants have reached their full height, many flowering above

Autumn colour glows through the garden at The Old Vicarage, Wormingford, in two phases. “Dramatic colour comes mainly from the trees with their brilliant red and copper tones,” says Jeremy Allen, a ga

Clare Hunt muses on success with sunflowers and the inexorable advance of autumn

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Liz Zorab shares her favourite daisy-shaped flowers for late colour