As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

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

I like unusual words and there are a couple that seem appropriate for this time of year. March, we know, is a fickle beast, where the weather can flicker from T-shirt to thermals in the course of a da

REAL readers' gardens!

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

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