Plants to keep the summer blooms coming

REAL readers' gardens!

My first visit to Benton End was in September. That year, the summer had been relentlessly dry, yet out of the parched dusty ground peeked large clumps of Colchicum speciosum, both white and tessellat

Nick Hamilton shares his pick of the plants that bloom for months on end

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Vibrant blooms for end-of-season splendour

If I could grow only one rose, this would be it. Fine, coppery foliage on thornless stems form a wiry, many-limbed shrub. Small, tapered buds are held in loose sprays and open into single flowers of s