Roses have earned their place as one of the UK’s all-time favourite flowers thanks to their beguiling and often highly scented blooms, wildlife-friendly features such as nutritious hips, and their wid

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

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

Looking after shrub and climbing roses Cut back, feed ...

Rosie Irving explains why we should help preserve these sadly vanishing older varieties

Snip now and your flowers will thank you later as a small trim can work wonders, says Joe Swift