How to grow more flowers

Gather armloads of blooms this summer with a picking garden

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

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

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

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

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