The days might be cold and grey but your outside space can still bring you joy – there are sturdy, vigorous plants that will fill it with beauty and heart-lifting colour…

MASTERCLASS

Brighten the dark days — and lift your spirits — with the blazing colours of dogwoods, bamboos and brambles

Plant your bulbs now for a lovely bright start to spring

Right now, I’m pruning the roses. I hate them looking so straggly and forlorn, and he-who-has-opinions can’t bear their wayward stems trying to snag him as he makes his way to the shed. I feel the ros

November may bring frost but it’s the perfect month to plant and prune fruit trees, for a taste of summer that money can’t buy