Collect seed

It’s a simple and effective way to grow more of your favourite flowers for free next year

Collecting seeds is satisfying, pocket friendly and fun

In September the garden is brimming with seeds – poppies, eryngiums, geraniums, lunarias, sanguisorbas, salvias, corydalis, sanguisorbas, gillenias and most of the grasses. Everything is there, just w

Mimic their natural behaviour and get them going now to flower in spring

There’s something really magical about saving your own seeds. These tiny parcels holding life will grow and expand into new plants. It of course saves money too and my garden was made on a small budge

The change of seasons from summer to autumn brings a riotous display of colour to the garden from late flowering perennials, jewel-coloured berries and leaves on the turn. If the weather is kind, whic