The true cost of flowers

Follow this simple advice for snipping, styling and keeping blooms fresh

Pick-your-own flower fields are blooming across Yorkshire and a trip to one is a treat for the senses as you relax and connect with the natural world. Emma Chesworth meets some of the growers

Decorating the land with their brilliant and varied hues, our native flora–which operate as clocks, calendars and Nature’s medicine cabinet–are simply blooming brilliant,

Sun, scent and super colour

A keen gardener’s love of colour and fragrance has resulted in a small garden with big impact

1 ROSA Olivia Rose Austin (= ‘Ausmixture’) Roses are great for the vase if you cut them just as the buds have opened into a still-closed cup, and first thing in the morning when the plant is still hyd