Was she such an evil spirit?

IT being the season for the painted purple ...

The garden at The Holt, Hampshire The home of Mr and Mrs Edward Wake

For almost 30 years, Valerie Finnis was a distinguished and charismatic teacher at the Waterperry Horticultural school for Women, near Oxford, founded in 1932 by the fearsomely smocked and gaitered Be

When summer beckons, it is answered by a chorus of glorious roses that fill an enchanting Isle of Wight garden, created from scratch by Derek and Louise Ness

Letter of the week Knot in time ...

Irene Thomson has a dream. A passionate plantswoman on a tight budget, she dreams of being able to visit a nursery with an unlimited amount to spend: “I wish I had a big budget,” she says. I would buy