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

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

REAL readers' gardens! Pruning roses A plant-packed suburban ...

REAL readers' gardens!

When garden designer James Scott of The Garden Company was asked by the National Trust to work on a restoration of the Long Garden at Cliveden, he leapt at the chance. Partly it was the prestigious lo

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