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

There are a whole host of lovely small trees that will grow happily in your metre and bring wildlife into your garden, whether it’s for food, shelter or a nesting site. At this time of year it’s best

REAL readers' gardens!

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

This month, Lalage reflects on how she was a little too hasty in planting out pea seedlings, contemplates the benefits of companion planting and sets about bringing order and tidiness to her vegetable beds

Some of our best garden plants are climbers. I grow many including clematis and roses, along with annuals such as sweet peas, and they all produce masses of colour – so why would you not fill your gar