Silken layers of mellow colour

It took me a while to love roses as a plant. I had always admired the flowers in the kind of knee-jerk way that most of us love sunsets or the song of a blackbird, but I had no feeling for them as pla

Find room for some fragrant plants to liven up your summer garden

‘Madame Grégoire Staechelin’ has stood the test of time, having being introduced in 1927. It’s a classic: mid-pink, scented and one of the first pink roses to bloom in May. Good for covering walls and

Here’s how to have fabulous, floriferous blooms all summer and autumn

Celebrate the nation’s favourite plant with these Great British Gardens to visit this summer

SUMMER has really arrived in my garden, where I’ve picked the bunch of sweet peas and inhaled the soft and sometimes spicy scent of these generous blooms. There’s something about fragrance which trigg