Lucy considers some of the exciting jobs to be done as spring gets underway

Roses have earned their place as one of the UK’s all-time favourite flowers thanks to their beguiling and often highly scented blooms, wildlife-friendly features such as nutritious hips, and their wid

REAL readers' gardens!

Looking after shrub and climbing roses Cut back, feed ...

The country’s Cape Floral Kingdom has incredible bloom diversity with around 9,000 species – and some make spectacular plants for our British gardens

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