Get busy creating a butterfly haven

Grow the plants that butterflies love and watch them flock to your garden

Lavender is one of those plants that evokes memories, just to squeeze its automatic leaves is to be transported in time. Mediterranean holidays, granny’s perfume, childhood gardens or an aromatherapy

Spice up a sunny corner by planting bold yellows and blues together with a splash of dazzling magenta pink

Nicola Stocken travels to Hampshire to meet the keeper of the national collection of the ‘butterfly bush’

A major part of my gardening joy is visual, and as my knowledge and observational powers have improved over decades of gardening, so has my love of experimenting with colour schemes. When I first came

Now’s the time to add some summer stars for a burst of colour