There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

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

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

Add support to peonies that have, large, heavy flowers such as ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ and ‘Duchesse de Nemours’. Special tapered, cone-shaped supports for peonies are available and can be simply pushed int

There are some vegetables that thrive in the cold, but unless you aspire to self-sufficiency Tom Coward recommends caution when sowing very early in the year. “It’s a mistake, although we always do it