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Gardens

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    ‘Unearthed’ at the British Library is unhistorical — but not uninteresting

    This celebration of gardening in the UK is an entertaining but puzzlingly limited survey that omits more than it includes

    A man in a cap and glasses looks at a large, very old hardback book, open in the middle to show a lavishly coloured illustration of a sunflower, alongside some script in Latin
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Growth potential: the small north London garden with big eco ambitions

    From tarmacked plot to lush green sanctuary, the somewhat secret OmVed Gardens is relaunching as the ‘UK’s first centre for food, ecology and creativity’. It’s both local community hub and agitator for global change

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    My personal Chelsea Flower Show gold medals go to . . . 

    After the months of dry weather, I was expecting an anticlimax — but there was plenty to rejoice in

  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Carole Bamford's geraniums — the good-time girls of gardening

    Her 173 varieties come in every shade of pink, and their names — Candy Dancer, Vectis Glitter, Apple Betty — evoke golden-era cabaret dancers. And for The Daylesford Organic founder, these easy-growing plants are an ever-fertile obsession

    A woman with blond hair and wearing pale yellow and cream, stands in a large greenhouse surrounded by geranium plants.
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    A memorial to Sycamore Gap — and other hopelessly lost trees

    Nancy Cadogan’s new show of paintings at London’s Garden Museum pays homage to trees that are casualties of development or vandalism — and the grief we feel at their loss

    Woman standing between two large colourful paintings of trees, looking up with a thoughtful expression
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    FT Series
    House & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special

    Highlights to catch at the celebrated horticultural event, planting inspiration from show gardens, and the RHS’s peat ban under the spotlight. Plus, how to roll a games lawn, and a look at ‘peak bloom’ for the property market

    Octagonal lily pond surrounded by paving, potted plants and dense greenery in front of a wooden barn
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special
    A sneak preview of the gardens shaking up the Chelsea Flower Show

    Project Giving Back’s partnerships between top designers and charities are uniting the ‘risky and experimental’ with the ‘real and purposeful’ — and turbocharging fundamental change

  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Patrick Grant’s diary of a garden rescue
    Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant rolls out a games lawn

    ‘Ten days of flattening stubborn lumps, humping rocks and sowing seeds has almost ended me — but I will play croquet, even if it kills me’

    A man pushes a heavy roller across an expanse of uneven earth
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    Chelsea Flower Show 2025 highlights — from a five-decade veteran attendee

    The annual event is wonderfully removed from reality; that’s why I love it. But there are still surprises to be found — just bring your own sandwich

    Two people in high-vis vests tending to a vibrant display of mixed flowers in an outdoor garden setting
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special
    Why the Chelsea Flower Show can’t quit peat

    Preserving peatland is essential to the UK’s strategy to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But the RHS, the organisation behind the internationally celebrated garden show, has back-pedalled on its peat-free pledge. What will push horticulture to end its dirty habit?

    Rustic potting bench with potted plants, a large soil pile, scattered tools, and papers clipped above
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special
    How to grow your own rainforest

    Moss, ferns, lichens and native trees that ‘are a little bit wonky’ are the ingredients needed to set you off in the right direction, according to one of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show displays

    Dense green forest with ferns and twisted tree branches
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    HTSI
    Five smart tools for 21st-century gardeners

    Gadgets to make the job easier, from mini-shredders to auto-waterers

    Gardena AquaBloom L, £179.99
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    Rubens reimagined: painter’s 17th-century garden is brought back to life

    The master artist’s garden was integral to his Antwerp town house, and it has now been replanted after meticulous historical study

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special
    From Kenya to Chelsea: the Gates Foundation imagines a vegetable garden of the future

    Climate-resilient crops such as chickpeas and sweet potatoes are on the menu at London’s lauded flower show

    A smiling woman in traditional dress sits in a lush greenhouse
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Wellbeing and Active Living Special
    The garden designers’ guide to outdoor furniture

    Though an important element of enjoying private oases, beautiful and well-crafted pieces can be oddly challenging to find. But landscape designers know just where to source them

    A sculptural wooden bench curves across a green lawn, framed by leafy trees, with white buildings and distant hills under a cloudy sky in the background
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    Pining for colour in the garden? It’s time to go a-Maying

    Climate change has put the season on fast forward: the wisteria and roses are flowering too early — but the colour rush is a spur to agile new planting prepping

  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Sarah Langford
    Why bother with No Mow May?

    A month of letting lawns grow long falls short in terms of sustainable biodiversity goals. But are there other upsides? 

    Field of white daisies in front of vibrant bushes and pink flowers, with a white cottage wall and window partly visible in the background
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Special
    Welcome to ‘peak bloom’ — the country house market where ‘the garden is the clincher’

    A beautiful garden could potentially add up to 20 per cent to the value of a home, say some experts — and even more when it’s designed by a renowned name. And the busiest sales window is upon us

    A wide, two-storey house seen from the wildflower meadow which lies in front of it. The meadow grass is rich, warm tones
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Inside the gardens that made Cecil Beaton’s art flourish

    A new exhibition is the first to explore the horticultural roots of the photographer and designer’s creative vision

    Man in a straw hat sits in a wicker chair holding a pug, surrounded by vibrant flowers, potted plants and a small lily pond on a tiled floor
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Jonathan Guthrie
    Give me fractal fronds over Kindleberger’s Spiral any day

    From the coiling patterns of ferns to the Fibonacci sequence of pine cones, the mathematical order of nature is a soothing antidote to our disordered lives

    Watercolour illustration of ferns, pinecones, snails, and a compass under a full moon, woven with golden spirals, stars, and geometric patterns
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Lessons in adversity: the bountiful resilience of Dorothy Clive Garden

    In 1940, Shropshire homeowner Harry Clive turned his attention to an ‘impregnable’ gravel quarry. The garden haven he created for his chronically ill wife remains an inspiration

  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    Read my tulips: how to make them bloom year after year

    Perennialise their shortlived glory with advice from Dutch expert Jacqueline van der Kloet

    Brick and timber cottage with a steep roof, surrounded by blooming tulips, daffodils and green shrubs in a vibrant spring garden
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    A tale of two shoppers: how to win at the garden centre dash this Easter

    To buy big or to shop shrewdly? Eye-catching blooms or plantings to nurture? Such are the questions many a couple will wrangle over this weekend. And an old hand has thoughts . . . 

    Large country house surrounded by trees and a blooming pink magnolia tree on a green lawn
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Dare you journey to Little Sparta — a point of no return?

    On the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay — poet, iconoclast, social revolutionary and maritime obsessive — his Scottish garden is being celebrated as his greatest work of art

    Golden statue head with curly hair partly buried in green forest undergrowth, surrounded by dense trees and leaves
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    HTSI
    Exbury, the Rothschilds’ garden refuge

    Marie-Louise Agius and her uncle Lionel de Rothschild are cultivating a shared passion at the family’s 200-acre Hampshire estate 

    Marie-Louise Agius and Lionel de Rothschild in Exbury Gardens
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