There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

These are some of the best ‘forever plants’ to sow this spring, says Liz

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

Add support to peonies that have, large, heavy flowers such as ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ and ‘Duchesse de Nemours’. Special tapered, cone-shaped supports for peonies are available and can be simply pushed int

In the first few years of growing cut flowers at Perch Hill, we would have some weeks where the place was bursting with flowers, making it hard to keep up, and other weeks (which frustratingly always

Liz has chosen her top varieties that offer food, shelter, or both, to our feathered friends