Fortunately, there is a much more manageable shrub that provides lovely bright yellow flowers in the spring and is much more suitable than forsythia for smaller gardens: Kerria japonica.

With temperatures to plummet as the wintry weather sweeps across the UK, Gardeners' World's Carol Klein has named the flowers that everyone should be growing ...

The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.