Liz Zorab chooses her favourite plants inspired by the skies

Warm up chilly days with sizzling colour

Advice and inspiration with Nige Eaton , horticulture expert at Moss & Moor, Ilkley

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

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

Step into a magical winter garden in the Weald of Kent, where cyclamens, hellebores and crocuses add splashes of pink and purple to the white carpet of snowdrops