So alluring is the scent as it hangs in the cold air that no garden should be without a winter-flowering daphne. Charles Quest-Ritson picks the best

John Massey’s Ashwood Nurseries has been breeding superb hellebores for the past 35 years, and they are acknowledged to be the best in the world. It all began because John was looking for winter work

April’s palette turns electric when euphorbias unleash their vivid colours, often outlasting and outshining other spring favourites

Discover the most beautiful and beneficial trees, shrubs and ground-layer plants to cultivate your own woodland oasis – however large or small your garden

REAL readers' gardens!

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