REAL readers' gardens! Pruning roses A plant-packed suburban ...

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

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

REAL readers' gardens!

Charles Quest-Ritson meets Glenn Shapiro, a former sculptor and sheep breeder who was so taken with these little alpines she now holds the National Collection of Hepatica at Silverdale in Lancashire