Do phormiums suffer if we get a hard frost?

Choose tough, evergreen varieties to bring colour and life to your plot all year round

Allowing plants to fend for themselves without staking builds resilience and creates relaxed billowing borders in this windswept autumn garden

REAL readers' gardens!

When their beautiful blooms are over, these plants keep on giving all the way through winter

Tough and undemanding, alpine plants deserve a place in every garden, adding the charm of their dainty flowers and handsome foliage to small-scale planting schemes

Lift your spirits and your landscape with easy pops of colour in any border