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

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

Get trimming now for healthier bushes and stunning summer blooms

Don’t wait for summer to realise your garden’s not up to scratch. The best time to sort your green space is now

Gather armloads of blooms this summer with a picking garden

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