Make new phlox plants for free by taking root cuttings of your established plants before they start sending up their spring shoots. Take them from plants dug up from the garden or from pot-grown speci

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

Make more plants this month by dividing perennials, sowing hardy annuals and planting summer bulbs

For many gardeners, dividing plants is their first experience of propagation, in other words, making more plants for free. In some cases it may be someone else who has divided them – those presents we

THIS WEEK AT GLEBE COTTAGE

These days we try to leave the ‘mess’ of our ornamental garden for as much of the winter as possible for the sake of the biodiversity in our vital garden spaces and, therefore, the world at large. Now