There’s far more to your favourite garden plants than just their looks – many bear the names and stories of remarkable people

Borde Hill’s new head gardener Mark Bobin has a passion for rare trees and shrubs. The son of a head gardener, he grew up at Sheffield Park and Bateman’s, both in Sussex. He joins Borde Hill fresh fro

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Nothing is quite so cheering after a long dull winter as the vivid floods of crocuses that wash over our parks and gardens in February and March. For David Carver, however, who has set up a small spec

I like unusual words and there are a couple that seem appropriate for this time of year. March, we know, is a fickle beast, where the weather can flicker from T-shirt to thermals in the course of a da

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