It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

Snip now and your flowers will thank you later as a small trim can work wonders, says Joe Swift

There are some vegetables that thrive in the cold, but unless you aspire to self-sufficiency Tom Coward recommends caution when sowing very early in the year. “It’s a mistake, although we always do it