Louise Curley celebrates spring’s homegrown and low-carbon blooms, showing how to pick for months and arrange them in garden-gathered style

Gather armloads of blooms this summer with a picking garden

Stephanie Hafferty lists her favourite edible blooms and shares her top tips for using them

As days grow longer, the urge to sow seeds is almost impossible to resist. But if you dream of overflowing beds, the most important thing to do now is plan the growing year to help you meet its sowing

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

Don’t wait for summer to realise your garden’s not up to scratch. The best time to sort your green space is now