The days might be cold and grey but your outside space can still bring you joy – there are sturdy, vigorous plants that will fill it with beauty and heart-lifting colour…

Reader Caroline Crocker celebrates her chance to reclaim the family garden to create a plant lover’s paradise with a focus on climate resilience.

York Gate, a one-acre garden near Leeds, was donated by the Spencer family in 1994 to Perennial, the charity that helps people working in horticulture and their families. While the garden was develope

Create a living boundary that brings beauty, privacy and is a haven for wildlife

Make life lovely

Vibrant fruits and berries are now starting to keep our gardens bursting with colour – but many come with myths and secrets!