Propagation made easy

Easy ways to create a compact kitchen garden

Saving seed from your garden is the ultimate in foraging – a free and exciting method of increasing your favourite plants year after year

Save seeds from the heads of grasses that may not survive the winter. Ornamental grasses such as pennisetum are marginally tender and particularly susceptible to frost damage when grown in heavy soil.

Liz Zorab picks her favourite self-seeding and spreading plants for easier gardening

It pays to prepare your flower display now for 2026 – and 2027!

Getting children into gardening gives them so much. They learn about the cycle of life, where food comes from, about wildlife and being outside. Research shows that if children are involved in gardeni