Winter

The best wood for wood burning stoves: Cherry wood

The best wood for burning on wood burning stoves and fires

Hippeastrum ‘Bogota’ The slender, slightly recurved petals are typical of the Spider Group of cultivars. The bright scarlet to coral red flowers are flushed with green on the reverse and each bloom is around 12cm across. 50cm.

Hippeastrum: how to care for them, and keep them flowering year after year

Waxwing eating a rowan berry

Plants for birds: Top plants to feed the birds

Erigeron karvinskianus

Ideal plants for ground cover

Handful of compost with earthworms, used for mulching

What is mulching and how to mulch

Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’

Winter interest Top roses for rosehips

NIGELLA DAMASCENA

80 beautiful and sustainable plants

Winter flowering Clematis ‘Fragrant Oberon’

The best winter-flowering clematis

Penelope Hobhouse's best gardening books

Gardening books

10 of the best gardening books from Penelope Hobhouse

Erythronium revolutum

How to care for, plant and the best garden erythroniums

Erythronium caucasicum

Plants for February

The Ditch at East Lambrook Manor, carpeted with snowdrops

Gardens to visit

Margery Fish’s remarkable snowdrops at East Lambrook Manor

Roses in the kitchen garden at Ham House

How to prune roses and yew this winter

Indoor-to-outdoor container

An indoor-to-outdoor planting combination

Monique Gudgeon lakeside sculpture garden

Striking form at a sculptural winter garden