麻豆约拍

With warmer days just around the corner, Adam Frost takes stock of his borders and plans ahead for some year-round interest. He also adds some soft fruit to his veg garden and gets some seed sowing under way.

Joe Swift travels to Birmingham to meet an allotmenteer who is passionate about growing all things Italian, while Arit Anderson visits Charleston in East Sussex, designed as a living painting by artist Vanessa Bell.

There is a couple in West Yorkshire who laugh in the face of slugs and snails to successfully grow hundreds of varieties of hostas in their garden. Plus a head gardener who, in his mid-twenties, is juggling the management of not one, but two, arts and crafts-inspired gardens in Somerset.