Mind the gap

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

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

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate

Editor Kim Stoddart explains how to allow plants to grow a little wilder for greater all-weather protection

In the first few years of growing cut flowers at Perch Hill, we would have some weeks where the place was bursting with flowers, making it hard to keep up, and other weeks (which frustratingly always