In an extract from her new book, The Productive Garden , Stephanie Hafferty explains how to save money and use traditional wisdom for homemade nasties-free loveliness

Toby explains how to take action now to stop weeds in their tracks

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Carpeting woodland in clouds of white star-shape flowers and filling the air with a heady, intense aroma, wild garlic is abundant in April. This bulb hibernates for most of the year before bursting fo

Quiz of the week 1) Which Shakespeare play ...

I like unusual words and there are a couple that seem appropriate for this time of year. March, we know, is a fickle beast, where the weather can flicker from T-shirt to thermals in the course of a da