Plant this Take advantage of the current bare-root planting season to add a rose to your garden. ‘Starlight Symphony’ is a climber with clusters of single white blooms around a pink central boss of stamens. It’s compact, reaching 2.5m tall, and has good resistance to the usual diseases roses succumb to.
Visit this If you love plants, but are more of a palm than a snowdrop when it comes to cold tolerance, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has more than an acre of glasshouses to wander around. This year, it is celebrating 350 years. Check the website for lots special of events: rbge.org.uk
Try this Etiolation – long, lanky stems – is usually a bad thing in gardening, except when you are trying to force vegetables. Stick a terracotta forcer pot (or a bucket) over rhubarb, sea kale or even a juicy dandelion rosette: excluding light makes for an, earlier, sweeter harvest a few weeks on.
