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

It’s probable that there isn’t anyone else in England making silk flowers in quite the same way Anne Tomlin does. Inspired by her garden and the chalk meadows near her West Sussex home, she makes life

Bulbs planted in autumn come to life now and deliver vibrant bursts of colour – a joy to see after the dark winter months. Daffodils (more on those overleaf) and tulips are enduring symbols of spring

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

What’s your opinion of artificial flowers? Are they naff? Way back, as a horticultural student, I and a few mates had some cards printed, which we would leave alongside plastic flower arrangements in

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