Summertime at sissinghurst

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Kari-Astri Davies considers choosing tulips to fire up her beds in the wake of bulb-buying frustration

If I could grow only one rose, this would be it. Fine, coppery foliage on thornless stems form a wiry, many-limbed shrub. Small, tapered buds are held in loose sprays and open into single flowers of s

We may have invented the flower border, but planting them remains one of the trickiest things to get right. Charles Quest-Ritson looks at the secrets behind the very best

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran

Allowing plants to fend for themselves without staking builds resilience and creates relaxed billowing borders in this windswept autumn garden