What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

Nick Hamilton explains why getting to know your garden’s sun, soil and shade situation will better help plants thrive

Anne outlines her top jobs to be getting on with over the coming fortnight

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

REAL readers' gardens!

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