And, for eye-catching plants to cover a garden wall, Sarah Raven suggests Chaenomeles x superba 'Crimson and Gold' – a Japanese quince. She says it's 'one of the loveliest wall shrubs to cheer us all ...

Many people know about edible flowers often used on cakes and in drinks – such as violas, geraniums, borage and elderflower, ...

Woolly aphids feed on apples and ornamentals that are closely related, such as crab apples, chaenomeles, cotoneaster and pyracantha. You will not see the small, brown or greyish-purple aphids, but ...