“These plants bring color, attract butterflies and bees, and signal that the garden is thriving,” he says. “It’s a weekend ...

Tim Richardson used to be Country Life’s gardens editor, so you know what you’re getting with The Arcadian Friends. It’s primarily about the intricate social and political connections of those who ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gardens, unlike dragons, do not live for ever. Nowadays, they become items of research. The past 40 years have seen a ...

After celebrating “Capability” Brown’s tercentenary so thoroughly in 2016, it seems appropriate to look at gardens made before his time, places that he is often accused of having wiped from the face ...

Monty Don has named Rousham as one of his favourite British gardens and called it “certainly one of the truly great gardens of the world”. Mr Don featured it in his 2008 BBC series Around the World in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s new book is, as befits its subject, a glorious cabinet of ...

The Romans introduced gardens to England but its popularity grew following the Dark Ages. The Romans were the first to introduce gardens to England but its popularity began to rise when Anglo-Saxon ...

Just because English cottage gardens don’t blanket the landscape of Central Texas doesn’t mean you can’t create one in your own garden. If you’ve yearned for the delicate blend of creative color and ...