Soil conditions and frost risk mean patience is essential

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Create new perennial plants to share and give your garden an instant lift for the year ahead

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

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

In the first few years of growing cut flowers at Perch Hill, we would have some weeks where the place was bursting with flowers, making it hard to keep up, and other weeks (which frustratingly always