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

REAL readers' gardens!

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

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

Soil conditions and frost risk mean patience is essential

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