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

Use the ancient Japanese Hapa Zome printing technique to create beautiful botanical cards and gift tags such as these, perfect for Mother’s Day

The top crafter shows you how to make a Mother’s Day card

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden… plus her diary for the week!

In the garden, hellebores and snowdrop bulbs are emerging through the wintry ground, while beyond, in borrowed views, dangling catkins and blossom-laden blackthorn branches sway in the hedgerows. Thes

Plantsman, designer and TV presenter Jamie Butterworth shares his failsafe planting combinations for different spots on your plot