January and February: Colour for a grey time of year
Practical: pruning roses and sowing sweet peas
March: The surge of spring life
Practical: sowing seeds and planting dahlias
Practical: staking and taking dahlia and chrysanthemum cuttings
May: When the world goes green
Practical: planting half-hardy annuals, dahlias and pots
June: Scent, scent, scent
Practical: making tea tonics, staking and dividing narcissi
July: Full-blown, bosomy marvellousness
Practical: maintaining sweet peas and conditioning cut flowers
August: A circus of annuals rolls in
Tender perennial climbers
Practical: taking care of pots and taking cuttings
September: Dahliafantasia
Slug and snail prevention
Practical: planting early bulbs and forcing hyacinths and amaryllis
October: Tender perennials give us a colour boost
Practical: planting bulbs and making a dahlia bulb lasagne
November and December: There's more to winter than Christmas
Practical: planting tulips and making living decorations.