New heights

If you feel inspired by Rachel de Thame’s piece, left, alpine plants are included in the spring plant sale in the glasshouse at the St Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, on Saturday, from 10am-noon. For details, call 01334 476 452 or visit www.st-andrews-botanic.org

Mothers go free

It is Mothering Sunday on March 18, and mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers are admitted free with paying children (£3.60 at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses, from 10am-4.30pm). There will also be a sale of bonsai plants in the car park from 8am-noon. For details, call 0121 454 1860 or visit www.birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk

Bringing landscapes to life

There will be a lecture by Karen Bridgman and Kath Clark on Planting the 18th-century Landscape at Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on Saturday at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £11, or £9.50 for Bucks Garden Trust members. To book, call 01296 653 226. For further information, visit www.waddesdon.org.uk

Oxford awakes

The five-acre garden at Wadham College, Oxford, is open next Sunday, from 2pm-6pm, including the Fellows’ private garden. Highlights include spring bulbs, specimen trees, a bamboo plantation and a recently planted shrubbery. For details, visit www.ngs.org.uk . Entry £2.50

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