Grow a rainbow with conifers!

Choose tough, evergreen varieties to bring colour and life to your plot all year round

Ever since the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker ventured to the Himalayas on his 1847 plant-hunting expedition, this species-rich, biodiverse region has held a fascination for British plant lovers. It’s

Cheerful and versatile, the daisy-like flowers of rudbeckias fill the garden with vibrant colour through the final weeks of the floral year

Lift your spirits and your landscape with easy pops of colour in any border

Allowing plants to fend for themselves without staking builds resilience and creates relaxed billowing borders in this windswept autumn garden

These attractive ornamental trees dazzle in autumn with their fiery leaf tints and striated bark, says Sue Fisher