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The article focuses on several perennials that can survive during winter and provides valuable colour to a garden. It states that Euphorbia amygdaloides has beetroot-red rosettes thar can be used by gardeners to light up their gardens with its blue spring flowers. It mentions that Europhobia characias bears roundels of foliage with acid-yellow flowers during late spring. It adds that grassy foliage such as Carex oshimensis, Sarcococca confusa, and Luzula syluatica shine during winter.

The article describes the garden of Bob and Shirley Stoneley at Woodbury Cottage in Surrey, England. It discusses how they started the garden including the creation of major levels over the years and working with the garden's south-facing slope. Their method for choosing their plants are addressed, such as visiting local nurseries and other gardens. Ways in which foliage and flower colors are balanced in various areas of the garden are also considered.

The article profiles gardener and plant breeder Lorna Jones. Jones's fascination with plants since she was a child is explored. Her selection of hellebore flowers, which she breeds herself, are considered. Jones comments on her struggles with breeding hellebores, especially with the color yellow. How Jones grows and selects seed-grown hellebores and her technique for transferring pollen as well as recording the hellebore's growth are discussed.