Presenter and garden designer Mark Lane shares his top picks for thrifty gardeners – easy to propagate, low maintenance and they’ll put on a fabulous floral show

I love growing summer flowers from seed for my cutting garden and to fill gaps in borders and containers to bloom all season on my patio and garden table. I sow hardy and half-hardy annuals alongside

Divide, pot up, and get them into the greenhouse now for vibrant summer flowers

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

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

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