For the dedicated gardener there is always work to be done. Tidying beds and borders, cutting back dead growth from last year’s perennials are the tasks often left over from autumn. Growth remains ...

These pretty, early spring flowers are the first to pop up in the garden. That’s what makes hellebores, winter heath and ...

Wrap up and head out to see the first beautiful signs of spring on a snowdrop walk. Carpets of snowdrops on woodland floors are a spectacular sight – and there are plenty of fields of white across ...

There are several varieties and cultivars of loropetalum ... Loropetalum chinense is an Asian shrub in the witch hazel family, or Hamamelidaceae. The strappy flowers look similar to our native ...

My favourite varieties ... my hazel arches which I planted around 35 years ago as the constant growth at the bottom was excluding too much light. I replaced them with feathered hornbeam trees ...

In late winter, the garden may not seem as romantic as its summer successor, yet you can fall in love with dazzling water ...

If it's the structure of bare trees you are interested in ... the popular evergreen camellia japonica, some varieties of which bloom as early as November; and witch hazel (hamamelis), a ...

Organic ingredients: Organic botanicals like jojoba oil, arnica, and tea tree aid in skin nourishment and pain relief ... Botanicals work to soothe skin, while witch hazel, almond oil, and orange oil ...

This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...