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At the end of last year, the heavily tilting Cotoneaster cornubia in the shadiest corner of my garden finally slumped to the ground. There wasn’t a storm: the poor tree had simply spent too long veeri

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

So alluring is the scent as it hangs in the cold air that no garden should be without a winter-flowering daphne. Charles Quest-Ritson picks the best

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This spring jewel is so wonderful when it pops up in gardens, whether it is planted in borders or in areas of grass – as it is just as happy in both. The foliage will start with a slight purple tone a