Behind the garden gate

Choose fabulously fragranced flowers to add an extra-special touch to your summer garden

WHEN you’re in your garden, balcony or patio and you stop to sit down for a few minutes, what can you hear? Is your garden a peaceful place? Perhaps it’s a little too quiet and you’d like to enjoy mor

Try these top 10 plants to ramp up the fragrance on your plot during the long summer nights

A few years ago I was in Greece with friends visiting a garden that I’d been working on. It was spring, and the wisteria in the garden was in full flower and at its very best. As we walked into the ga

IT’S midsummer, and this is usually the season when gardens are supposed to look their best – brimming with colour, buzzing with life, weed-free and calm, relaxing places for lounging with friends or

Roses are the ultimate romantic garden plants conjuring images of summer gardens with their profusion of colour and scent. In every garden that I’ve made I’ve planted roses, bush roses surrounded by l