Presenter and garden designer Mark Lane shares his top picks for thrifty gardeners – easy to propagate, low maintenance and they’ll put on a fabulous floral show

Make more plants this month by dividing perennials, sowing hardy annuals and planting summer bulbs

I love growing summer flowers from seed for my cutting garden and to fill gaps in borders and containers to bloom all season on my patio and garden table. I sow hardy and half-hardy annuals alongside

Erysimum Rysi Copper One of the definitions of a wallflower is that of a shy and awkward person with whom nobody wants to dance: I am sure we have all felt like that at some point in our adolescence.

These are the ten plants that I use most often and the ones that I could not possibly live without. 1 AGAPANTHUS INAPERTUS Mid- to dark-blue, 7cm-long bells on very tall, bolt-upright stems, with many

One of the top experts on pests and diseases, Pippa gardens using organic methods. Matt trained at Kew and has been gardening professionally for more than 30 years. Kirsty is Head of Gardens at Balmor