Nadia Shaikh goes synaesthetic for the start of spring, almost tasting the orange tang of an early butterfly

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

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

It can still seem like winter, but March sees birds beginning to stir, writes David Callahan …

Editor Kim Stoddart explains how to allow plants to grow a little wilder for greater all-weather protection

Carpeting woodland in clouds of white star-shape flowers and filling the air with a heady, intense aroma, wild garlic is abundant in April. This bulb hibernates for most of the year before bursting fo