At one with the earth

Nestled among medieval ruins in the charming Dorset village of Abbotsbury, Abbey Farm Flowers is – as the name suggests – a flower farm where you can stroll around and pick your own bouquet of beautif

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Favourite garden The ‘Ditch’ at Dan Pearson and Huw Morgan’s Hillside garden captured me from my first visit. It’s the perfect encapsulation of embracing weeds, while still steering land to be biodive

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

REAL readers' gardens!

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