Professor Buczacki is a borticultural expert, weiter and former chair of Gardeners Question Time

REAL readers' gardens!

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

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

So alluring is the scent as it hangs in the cold air that no garden should be without a winter-flowering daphne. Charles Quest-Ritson picks the best

The country’s Cape Floral Kingdom has incredible bloom diversity with around 9,000 species – and some make spectacular plants for our British gardens