Persian perfection

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the

RHS adds resilient varieties to its Plants for Pollinators list

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

REAL readers' gardens!

On the south-western edge of St Albans, winding paths lead into a heart-warming garden that embraces autumn flowers and family memories. The borders are as vibrant and colourful as most gardens’ in mi

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