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…

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

Try our pick of the most beautiful plants you can buy now

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

Looking to bring the full panoply of autumn colour into your garden? Try a deciduous shrub, says Joe Swift

York Gate, a one-acre garden near Leeds, was donated by the Spencer family in 1994 to Perennial, the charity that helps people working in horticulture and their families. While the garden was develope