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

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

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

Start your summer show by ordering your tubers now to get the very best varieties

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