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

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

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

REAL readers' gardens!

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…