Setting the stage for spring

REAL readers' gardens!

REAL readers' gardens!

It may be September but there’s plenty of life in the garden yet!

Some wins and some wobbles!

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

We may have invented the flower border, but planting them remains one of the trickiest things to get right. Charles Quest-Ritson looks at the secrets behind the very best