Mike Palmer celebrates the seasonal awakening of our gardens from their winter slumbers with trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs to get seriously excited about

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden... plus her diary for the week!

I’m bringing my summer stars

Make more plants this month by dividing perennials, sowing hardy annuals and planting summer bulbs

Don’t wait for summer to realise your garden’s not up to scratch. The best time to sort your green space is now

These days we try to leave the ‘mess’ of our ornamental garden for as much of the winter as possible for the sake of the biodiversity in our vital garden spaces and, therefore, the world at large. Now