Sensational salvias

If ever a group of plants should come with a warning, it’s salvias. Start with just one or two and before you know it you will be scouring nursery lists and leafing greedily through plant catalogues l

Salvias, well, one salvia for sure, have been cultivated from time immemorial. Salvia officinalis, culinary sage, is a constituent of most herb gardens. It comes from the sunny slopes of the Mediterra

A surge in salvia varieties has cemented its status as a star of the summer garden

Plants are so clever at adapting to their increasingly hot, sunny and dry surroundings

Liz Zorab picks her favourite self-seeding and spreading plants for easier gardening

Shropshire is not the UK’s driest county, admittedly, but at Wildegoose Nursery in the walled garden at Millichope Park, between Much Wenlock and Ludlow, owners Jack and Laura Willgoss have taken the