Seeing the light

At the end of last year, the heavily tilting Cotoneaster cornubia in the shadiest corner of my garden finally slumped to the ground. There wasn’t a storm: the poor tree had simply spent too long veeri

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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

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

OCCASIONALLY on rural roads you’ll see cones and a sign proclaiming, Hedge cutting in progress. Sure enough, a little further on you’ll find a tractor with a fearsome looking attachment giving the hed

When garden designer James Scott of The Garden Company was asked by the National Trust to work on a restoration of the Long Garden at Cliveden, he leapt at the chance. Partly it was the prestigious lo