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

Stephanie Hafferty lists her favourite edible blooms and shares her top tips for using them

Lavender is one of those plants that seems to capture summer in a single scent, and it’s surprisingly easy to grow if you give it the conditions it loves. Success with these beautiful little flowers i

The sweet violet, Viola odorata, may be a diminutive flower, but its small, slightly asymmetrical, pansy-like flowers are highly fragrant. They open in early spring before most plants have even though

Cut out any dead or damaged wood on abelias now to encourage good health and vigorous new growth. Start by trimming any flowered shoots to tidy and reshape the shrub. If you have an old, overgrown shr

Preparing the greenhouse, caring for citrus and growing ...