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

What to plant, pot, plan and prune this month, plus a few treats to buy and inspiration further afield

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