Edible flowers

Edible flowers add colour and texture to your patch and flavour to your cooking. You can start with borage, marigolds and violets.

Herb hedges you can grow yourself

Lavender can planted so that it makes a hedge that will provide a beautiful scent as well as nectar for pollinators.

Statuesque angelica

Choose your spot carefully before planting angelica as it quickly grows to a metre across and more than two metres high when in flower.

Flowers for late winter and spring colour

Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.

Poppy planting time

Planting poppy seed takes a little care but when it blooms it's an absolute joy!

Smell the lavender

Find the right lavender, says Penny Woodward, to use for its calming and relaxing effects.

Wondrous wallflowers

You can't go past deliciously scented wallflowers for your spring and summer garden.

Roses of yesteryear

Penny Woodward investigates roses of yesteryear, and lists her top picks. 

Love-in-a-mist

Penny Woodward says that despite its delicate looks, love-in-a-mist is surprisingly tough and easy to grow.

Coffee: grow, harvest, process

Yes, you can grow coffee in Australia. Simon Webster explores the growing, harvesting and processing of coffee.

Shimmering salvias

Penny Woodward says she wouldn't be without these surperb ornamental salvias in her garden.

Mellow autumn fruitfulness

Discover some unusual fruits that are havested in autumn, says Penny Woodward.