10 ways to jazz up your garden this autumn... and 10 gardens to visit

How to bring seasonal colours, scents and fruit to your garden - and where to head for fabulous winter days outThere is nothing jollier: fill a 20cm pot or a window box with peat-free compost and get going. Hellebores are my top winter flower: Ashwood Garden Hybrids has them in pink, red, purple, white, yellow and even black. Partner with a small Polypodium fern or grass-like Carex "Everest" with its variegated leaves. Underplant with white or pink Cyclamen coum. Plant everything in a rough triangle, with the larger hellebore at the back, the carex or fern in one front corner, and the cyclamen in the other. Continue reading...