Alpines such as conifers and creeping plants hail from exposed, challenging habitats, making them hardy choices for UK gardens ...

I ski around a bend on a wilderness trail and take a moment to enjoy the sun on my face and catch my breath. Native ...

Sally Robinson, (AKA The Yorkshire Flower Faffer) Born and bred in Doncaster and owner of Field Good Flowers, a British ...

But try placing a few Euryops plants in a garden of sages, lavenders, artemisias, penstemons and tree mallows ... Are there any winter-blooming plants you would like more people to know about?

Cousins to the Penstemon family, these perennials are prized ... Pull out their root suckers in the winter to curtail spreading.

Winter 2022-23 put this rule to the test. Penstemons, blue-flowered ceanothus, many varieties of daphne, all the hebes and even my winter-flowering garrya with catkins of pink-green flowers died ...

A few alpines are picky and only for specialists, often requiring shelter from winter rain in cold frames ... with magenta flowers and Penstemon pinifolius “Wisley Flame” are all good choices.

Above: Emma Poutz, co-founder and Executive Director of BEE, opens her presentation on Resilience gardens. Photo by Siddharth Gupta By George Christie With all the troubles afflicting our natural ...

Besides, they retain moisture in the soil far better during dry seasons, such as winter and summer ... and ornamental grasses like mondo grass, penstemons, coreopsis, and Japanese anemone.