Winter at sissinghurst

Shrubs are more than your garden’s supporting players. Given the right role, and even the occasional seasonal spotlight, they can become a star turn

Bringing order from chaos is fundamental to gardening, especially after the summer holidays, so get stuck in, says Joe Swift

Nurture existing plants and see if you can snaffle some bargains!

It may be September but there’s plenty of life in the garden yet!

Walled gardens are an everyday feature of large country estates, but the splendid example at Broughton Grange defies all expectation. Rather than being a tucked-away working area for growing flowers a

River, meadow and wood converge around an old mill in Hampshire, where changing vistas create a bond between garden and landscape