The plants that keep on giving

It’s a simple and effective way to grow more of your favourite flowers for free next year

Mimic their natural behaviour and get them going now to flower in spring

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

Collecting seeds is satisfying, pocket friendly and fun

Get ahead of the game for next year by sowing seeds now, says Joe Swift — and save yourself a fortune

There’s something really magical about saving your own seeds. These tiny parcels holding life will grow and expand into new plants. It of course saves money too and my garden was made on a small budge