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Jonathan Buckley It is with summer pots that you can have a ball, thanks to the huge range of flowery things guaranteed to give you July to October brilliance. Are you going for compact varieties of seed-grown plants, such as cosmos, zinnias, phlox and tobacco flowers, or the hugely long-flowering, low-maintenance range of tender perennials, such as arctotis, argyranthemums, osteospermums, dahlias, pelargoniums, verbenas, petunias or their mini cousins, the calibrachoas? With some of these tender perennials – nemesias, heliotropes and species petunias – you can add scent as well as colour...

Friday 7 May 2021 I’ve learnt to be far less snobby about growing flowers lately; because I cut them for the vase, this allows my planting to be free, with an eye for colour and shape rather than planning colour schemes in pots and border. When it comes to cut flowers, you can be far more crazed. I like flowers to be weird and wonderful for cutting. My favourite way to display them inside is simply in single stem vases or even shallow bowls. I've found that circus-like, larger than life, almost bonkers in form flowers can take a room by storm and once you start arranging them in single stem...