If you want some colour in your garden right through the coldest months, Alan Titchmarsh has a handful of excellent suggestions for you

The British winter tends to be something of a gloomy time. However, garden guru Alan Titchmarsh says that, with a little careful planning, you can plant a selection of winter-flowering blooms that will provide "little splashes of colour" all the way through to spring.

He's prepared a list of five out-and-out winners, as well as a couple of recommendations from his own garden – one of which, he admits that can be a little "divisive."

Alan also playfully recommended one piece of winter colour that he wouldn't have anywhere near his own garden .

Looking at an ornamental kale, he said: "I know some people like them. And I hate to be unkind to any pla

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