Amazing acers

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week!

Welcome the new season with colour and vibrancy

If you’re in the market for a new tree, and you’d like your new purchase to contribute to your garden’s autumn display, little will help narrow down the plethora of choice quite like a visit to an arb

As autumn approaches, we are reminded of its beauty by the rich and rapidly changing leaf colours produced by trees as they prepare for winter. The production of green chlorophyll shuts down, exposing

There are many shrubs with magnificent autumn leaf colour that are easier to find room for than trees

Keen collectors sooner or later find their way to the outstanding trees and shrubs at Bluebell Arboretum in Derbyshire, writes Charles Quest-Ritson. It’s a wonderful sight at this time of year