Green-fingered reads for a garden lover’s summer break

Seven of the best new gardening books you’ll find yourself going back to again and again

Clodagh McKenna: ‘Me and Harry have a drink every day. I don’t care. It’s lockdown’

The Irish-born chef on her life with Harry Herbert, future plans and new book of weeknight meals

The best gardening books to give this Christmas

Winter has its icy grip on the garden leaving little for the gardener to do except pick up a good book

Wonky stems and blowsy blooms: The new way to arrange flowers

Fashionable florists choose simple posies over imported flowers and ‘toxic’ foam

Clean up your act the natural way

Go granny on it - make your own chemical-free cleaning products

Pot luck: grow a lush summer harvest from containers

Even the smallest spaces can yield salad, peas, peppers and dahlias both pretty and tasty

Preserved lemons