What to plant, pot, plan and prune this month, plus a few treats to buy and inspiration further afield

From drought to deluge, future-proof your plot with resilient plants, smarter watering and flexible gardening

I love growing summer flowers from seed for my cutting garden and to fill gaps in borders and containers to bloom all season on my patio and garden table. I sow hardy and half-hardy annuals alongside

Advice and inspiration with Nige Eaton , horticulture expert at Moss & Moor, Ilkley

I like the slow-quick-slow burn of early spring, with the leaves unfurling slowly but surely. Some plants are decidedly cautious; whitebeams and catalpa won’t show themselves for weeks, while impatien

These are the ten plants that I use most often and the ones that I could not possibly live without. 1 AGAPANTHUS INAPERTUS Mid- to dark-blue, 7cm-long bells on very tall, bolt-upright stems, with many