Saving your own seeds saves you money, helps you continue to grow important or favourite varieties, preserves links with the past and means you can share your seeds with others. But more importantly,

Toby explains how plants and trees set up natural defences and outlines what we can do to help

Look ahead to next spring and prepare for a display to rival Chelsea!

In September the garden is brimming with seeds – poppies, eryngiums, geraniums, lunarias, sanguisorbas, salvias, corydalis, sanguisorbas, gillenias and most of the grasses. Everything is there, just w

Choosing and planting bulbs each year brings excitement and endless possibilities

Mike Palmer has some sage words about growing and propagating these long-lasting stunners