While you're there, you might want to keep your eye out for an unusual ground cover commonly known as Turkish sage or Jerusalem sage (Phlomis russeliana). This lovely plant can handle the heat and ...

Mulching helps to reduce soil moisture loss, keeps roots cool and prevents the growth of weeds, which use much water, robbing garden plants. Mulch after watering or a summer storm, rather than ...

Also weird and wonderful is Phlomoides tuberosa (syn. Phlomis tuberosa) 'Amazone', which has clumps of lilac-pink blooms dotted up 1.5-metre upright stems and can go in the ground in autumn or spring.

Columnar cypress add to the atmosphere and in place of the many roses that have been removed are lavenders, including L. intermedia ‘Phenomenal’, rosemaries, such as Salvia rosmarinus ‘Sissinghurst ...