A spring-blooming shrub like forsythia should be pruned after it flowers so that the following year it lives up to its potential. (Neil Bell) You've got clippers in hand, a shrub in mind and a gleam ...

The whole cistus tribe - which includes halimiocistus, halimium and helianthemum - do tend to get leggy in our sunless climate but seem to have got themselves an undeservedly dodgy reputation as far ...

WHEN the sun shines, few plants look as splendid as the sunroses, and they have been wonderful in recent days. The sunrose, or cistus, is not a true rose but it has flowers that are very similar in ...