As soon as temperatures start to shift from single figures towards double digits, lawns across the country begin to grow. Spring is the season ardent lawn lovers look forward to most, the time when mo

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

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

Our new columnist on the joys of untidy gardening in April and how she stops slugs in their tracks