Into the garden... with garden expert

From ramblers to floribundas, climbers to ground cover, plus top varieties to choose from, here’s your definitive winter guide

Modest, alluring and versatile, Viola odorata, or sweet violet, is a small, hardy, herbaceous perennial that tumbles and scrambles close to the ground, forming dense clumps of dainty, heart-shaped, gr

Picotee-pink-edged, large flowers that look at you from a tall stem. Followed by marbled evergreen leaves. A sterile cultivar from Rodney Davey, it flowers prolifically as its energy is saved for flow

Mike Palmer uncovers tales of love and passion behind his favourite romantic plants

About this time of year it is well worth making a trip to RHS Garden Wisley to see the crocus lawns. All around and under the conifers is an impressive display of many, many thousands of flowers in wh

Wisteria is my favourite climbing plant, which is also the case for many gardeners: you can’t fail to fall in love with it when you see it growing to perfection. I’m always tempted by the range of flo