Here’s the route to chrysanths that are headed for exhibition

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

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

Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, writer and former chair of Gardeners' Question Time

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