Plants for free divide and multiply

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

Comfrey is a handy plant to have in the garden, as it can be used to make a free natural plant feed. The flowers attract bees and it’s also a food plant for several moth and butterfly species, includi

Make new phlox plants for free by taking root cuttings of your established plants before they start sending up their spring shoots. Take them from plants dug up from the garden or from pot-grown speci

Anya Lautenbach, bestselling author and Instagram plant whisperer – known to her one million-plus followers as Anya the Garden Fairy – shares her advice on how to keep the costs down

Formerly known as Dicentra spectabilis, bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis), is a Chinese plant bearing pink-red, heart-shaped flowers with white tips that hang from arching flower stems in late

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