Soil conditions and frost risk mean patience is essential

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Give flowering house plants a general house-plant feed every two weeks throughout spring, then switch to a weekly high-potash house-plant food as flower buds develop. Orchids don’t like heavy doses of

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

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

The country’s Cape Floral Kingdom has incredible bloom diversity with around 9,000 species – and some make spectacular plants for our British gardens