Adapted to extremes

Tough and undemanding, alpine plants deserve a place in every garden, adding the charm of their dainty flowers and handsome foliage to small-scale planting schemes

Choose tough, evergreen varieties to bring colour and life to your plot all year round

The Welsh word for hillock or high point is ‘crûg’, which, in the case of Crûg Farm Plants refers to a thickly planted mound, the site of a lookout with views over a Roman road between Conwy and nearb

If you REALLY want to know Scotland’s mountains, you need to add The Fionas to your peak-bagging hit-list – starting with BEN MOR COIGACH .

Skilfully created by Christina Shand and filled with prized plants, Dyffryn Fernant sits harmoniously within an ancient Welsh landscape

Ever since the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker ventured to the Himalayas on his 1847 plant-hunting expedition, this species-rich, biodiverse region has held a fascination for British plant lovers. It’s