Trade secrets: dahlia cuttings

Start your summer show by ordering your tubers now to get the very best varieties

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

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

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

For many gardeners, dividing plants is their first experience of propagation, in other words, making more plants for free. In some cases it may be someone else who has divided them – those presents we

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