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

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

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

Position logs randomly around garden borders rather than in neat piles to recreate the way they fall naturally from trees in the wild. You could artfully arrange them around spring-flowering plants or

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

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl