Plant your bulbs now for a lovely bright start to spring

These beauties keep the party going from late spring when daffodils and tulips have faded away

Once Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in around 1440, it was inevitable that gardeners would embrace the exciting new technology that sped up printing and reduced its cost. The first her

November may bring frost but it’s the perfect month to plant and prune fruit trees, for a taste of summer that money can’t buy

Vincent van Gogh made sunflowers his personal motifs, but, when he looked to experiment with colour, a full florist’s roster of irises, roses, poppies, poured out of his brush, as Michael Prodger discovers

Liz Zorab explains how to get set for spring by filling pots and troughs with the promise of colour to come