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

In the garden, hellebores and snowdrop bulbs are emerging through the wintry ground, while beyond, in borrowed views, dangling catkins and blossom-laden blackthorn branches sway in the hedgerows. Thes

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

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

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