Plants that are a reminder of miss willmott

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

Creating a manageable garden around a Georgian rectory in rural Norfolk is an ongoing process for two keen gardeners

When summer beckons, it is answered by a chorus of glorious roses that fill an enchanting Isle of Wight garden, created from scratch by Derek and Louise Ness

WE’VE all done it – we’ve picked up a plant somewhere because we liked the look of it, and then lived to regret it. Perhaps it’s turned out to be a thug, taking over a border, or it’s a prolific self-

Originally a means of keeping a living record of garden plants, our 722 National Plant Collections–of everything from Abies to Zingiber –set the gold standard across the world. Charles Quest-Ritson meets some of the expert collection holders

Unless you are a ‘foliagephile’, or insist on displaying nothing but cool blues or sunset tones of red, orange and yellow, you are almost certainly growing one or probably more plants in your garden w