Chaenomeles

It’s a hugely rewarding pursuit and not as complicated as some people fear

The impermanent beauty of plants such as the tree peony, whose display of flowers is fleeting, captures the imagination of gardeners. Louise Curley explores their timeless charm

When choosing a flowering shrub, a deutzia is rarely at the top of the list. Philadelphus are well known for their fragrance, everyone loves a lilac, many weigelas have the benefit of colourful foliag

When summer beckons, it is answered by a chorus of glorious roses that fill an enchanting Isle of Wight garden, created from scratch by Derek and Louise Ness

It took me a while to love roses as a plant. I had always admired the flowers in the kind of knee-jerk way that most of us love sunsets or the song of a blackbird, but I had no feeling for them as pla

Spectacular, intriguing and rather bizarre, Sarracenia is a group of plants that defies expectation. Their bold and colourful trumpets look exotic, even alien, yet they are resoundingly earthbound, an