Position logs randomly around garden borders rather than in neat piles to recreate the way they fall naturally from trees in the wild. You could artfully arrange them around spring-flowering plants or

Turn a shady corner into a lush, wildlife-rich woodland garden this April by working with nature

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Nestled among medieval ruins in the charming Dorset village of Abbotsbury, Abbey Farm Flowers is – as the name suggests – a flower farm where you can stroll around and pick your own bouquet of beautif

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

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung