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

This month, our list focuses on the finest floral creatives bringing their talent to arrangements, installations, events, workshops and more

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

A bunch of flowers can speak volumes. Different blooms and colours represent messages of affection, friendship, support, luck and even proposal. Most cultures and religions have a history of using flo

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

Plantsman, designer and TV presenter Jamie Butterworth shares his failsafe planting combinations for different spots on your plot