Create beautifully scented, long-lasting indoor arrangements using winter greenery and flowers from your garden. Choose fragrant blooms such as viburnum, witch hazel, Christmas box and wintersweet, an

A Victorian favourite, both the leaves and flowerheads ...

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

Sustain beauty all winter with smart planting and bold choices

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Lucy Hutchings looks at what you can be doing in the vegetable garden now, to get ahead of the game in the spring