AS a gardener, you wouldn’t plant a rhododendron in chalky soil. And when it comes to clematis – it ‘roots in the shade – scrambles up to the sun’ – while roses do well in ...

In this garden, Euryops daisies are cheek by jowl with Abutilon megapotamicum, a Chinese lantern species with dull orange petals and pale red sepals; these daises are adjacent to Erysimum Bowles Mauve ...

the sweet pea shrub. This shrub is flowering in pinkish violet, a color the Sunset Western Garden Book calls “hard to handle,” but one that shows up nicely against a background of yellow daisies.