Shadow lands

Nick Hamilton explains why getting to know your garden’s sun, soil and shade situation will better help plants thrive

At the end of last year, the heavily tilting Cotoneaster cornubia in the shadiest corner of my garden finally slumped to the ground. There wasn’t a storm: the poor tree had simply spent too long veeri

To hide my new garden’s nakedness, I planted trees. Damson and mirabelle plum, ‘Discovery’ and reinette apples, two pears, a quince and a ‘Nottingham’ medlar. There was a purple-leaved filbert, a ‘Che

Some 68 per cent of British adults visit a garden centre each year with the hope of a brighter summer, according to the Horticultural Trades Association. We’ve all been there; filling the trolley with

Anne outlines her top jobs to be getting on with over the coming fortnight

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