It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

Snip now and your flowers will thank you later as a small trim can work wonders, says Joe Swift

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

Pot them up now for early colour and free plants from the new shoots

Editor Kim Stoddart explains how to allow plants to grow a little wilder for greater all-weather protection

It’s all systems grow in Fiona’s small, town garden in Lincolnshire now that spring is here