Add perfume to your garden with plants. Choose scented flowers and plant them near the patio so that you get the best from every waft of fragrance.

As the first hints of autumn start to blush the garden foliage, Jean Vernon has been out and about making the most of the last days of summer.

Geoff Stonebanks shares his favourite recipes that his visitors just love, including spinach and pine nut muffins and lime and polenta cake.

Advice and top tips on growing blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants and gooseberries from Vicki Cooke.

Courgette flowers are edible and delicious. Make them the centre piece of your summer lunch menu with this recipe from cookery writer Max Clark.

If you dream of having a summer seaside garden? Take some advice from an award-winning garden designer who lives and gardens next to the sea.

Before summer starts to slip towards autumn make the very best of every opportunity to enjoy your outside space.

Martyn Cox helps you harvest some fruit and vegetable treasure and offers advice to keep your plants productive.

Mint is an essential kitchen herb: it has an unforgettable fresh, clean taste says Barbara Segall, and will remind you of peppermints, chewing gum and toothpaste.

Scented plants improve our wellbeing and are also beneficial for wildlife, drawing in pollinators far and wide.

Martyn Cox shows you what to sow, grow and harvest in mid-summer.

Debi Holland offers five reasons why flowers are good to grow in among your veg.

Geoff Stonebanks reveals his must have tools and accessories that help keep his garden looking fabulous.

The hedgerows are bursting with elderflower and the garden is rich in fruit ripening in abundance. You can preserve the taste of summer right now, using fresh ingredients from your garden.

Many new gardeners are starting out with tiny growing spaces such as balconies. Jean Vernon suggests some small space growing solutions.