Imagine the satisfyingly stiff green shoots in your garden, which you are gloating over now, in a few months. Will there be a perfect climactic moment of gorgeous flowering before…

Plants go in and out of fashion but the weight of scorn falls heaviest on those plants which march on through the decades, successful and healthy, in barely tended gardens.…

A tiny pot of iris reticulata plonked on a rickety green chair outside the kitchen window charms me while I eat my porridge in the bone-cracking cold of these January…