Gather armloads of blooms this summer with a picking garden

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

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

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

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

If you’re new to sowing seeds or haven’t had much success in the past, then let me take you through the basics. It’s such a rewarding, cheap and easy way to fill your pots, borders and veg patch. Some