Rosie Irving celebrates an easy-going shrub that gives so much for so little effort

Liz Zorab chooses her favourite plants inspired by the skies

Reduce the height of tall buddleias now to prevent the risk of any branches snapping and potentially causing damage during winter gales. This pruning is also essential on younger buddleias to reduce t

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff

Lynn Farram and the congregation of Christ Church, Norris Green, Liverpool

Alexander Marshal–this country’s first major botanical painter–deserves to be better known, writes Tiffany Daneff, after seeing his luminous originals in the Royal Collection