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

From ramblers to floribundas, climbers to ground cover, plus top varieties to choose from, here’s your definitive winter guide

The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden… plus her diary for the week!

It’s time to take a look at the wealth of stylish smaller conifers that give all-year colour and structure, says Sue Fisher

I’m bringing my summer stars

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