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

Use the ancient Japanese Hapa Zome printing technique to create beautiful botanical cards and gift tags such as these, perfect for Mother’s Day

The top crafter shows you how to make a Mother’s Day card

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

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

Wisteria is my favourite climbing plant, which is also the case for many gardeners: you can’t fail to fall in love with it when you see it growing to perfection. I’m always tempted by the range of flo