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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      Horticulture has a growing problem

      The British sector is beset by challenges, as a recent report by a House of Lords committee makes clear

      A garden centre with plants outside and canopies overhead
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Jonathan Guthrie
      Who — or what — killed the sparrows?

      It’s easy to blame the sparrowhawk for the reduction in their numbers but there are other, non-animal world culprits

    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen
      How to keep your plants happy as it gets cold

      FT gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox talks winter plant tending, indoors and out

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      A tree is for life, so choose carefully what to plant

      Several books offer solid, straightforward advice but beware the omissions and verbosity of others

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      A mid-November bouquet

      From dahlias to salvias to choisyas, flowers are blooming amid the mildness of what used to be a frosty month

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      How to make your winter garden glow

      Banish bleakness with brightness and visually arresting plants that produce colour, scent, sound and movement

      View across frost on frozen pond, Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’, Cortaderia selloana, Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      FT SeriesHTSI’s holiday gift guide 2023
      16 presents for gardeners and nature lovers

      Cookware, clothing and compost for green-fingered friends

      Clare Coulson’s garden in Suffolk
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      HTSIHTSI holiday special 2023
      The luxury wreath that lasts forever

      Artist-designer Jess Wheeler and plantswoman Kitten Grayson are weaving magic in the hedgerow

      Jess Wheeler (left) and Kitten Grayson in Grayson’s Somerset home
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      How one family ensures the legacy of a landscape gardening genius

      Le Nôtre’s work at the château Vaux-le-Vicomte is preserved thanks to its owners and public support

      Formal gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte by André Le Nôtre
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      The glory of Tuscany’s trees

      Italy’s columnar cypresses and cork oaks are not just beautiful — they are full of cultural resonance

    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      Tulips great and small

      One variety grows low and wild and has historic connections; another is tall and has literary associations

      Tulipa ‘Marilyn’
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      HTSIHow To Spend It Wisely: the sustainability special 2023
      How Alfie Nickerson became the poster boy for biodynamic British flowers

      Burnt Fen farm in Norfolk is a hymn to seasonal happiness

      Alfie Nickerson and his co-worker Katia El-Fahkri with their harvest at Burnt Fen
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      A ‘Japanistic’ garden off the coast of Maine

      Autumn colours are at their fleeting best this weekend in a Japan-influenced design

      beautiful fall colours on trees by a lake
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      HTSIHTSI autumn design special 2023
      Welcome to Catswood: Miranda Brooks’ ‘instant garden’

      The celebrated landscape designer has created a debut line of outdoor fabrics

      Noisette the goose wears a hat in Catswood Design Red Bobbly Stripe
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      My garden’s blue period

      Lavender, lilac and electric-blue shades are set off to spectacular effect by serene September skies

      Two butterflies perched on a bunch of flowers
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      A Kew Gardens festival explores sexual diversity in nature

      Botany has used gendered language since Carl Linnaeus’s taxonomy but plants are anything but binary

      a huge colourful artwork among foliage in glasshouse at Kew
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      Ivy bees are in a league of their own

      They are proliferating in parts of Britain — and creating a buzz on the lawns of Oxford university

      Flowering Hedera helix, the common ivy
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      How to control garden pests without using chemicals

      You can squash them, hunt them — or let predatory insects such as dragonflies and ladybirds do the dirty work for you

      A hand is grasping a cluster of vibrant flowers, surrounded by a variety of insects
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      A Flemish festival of flowers

      Courtesy, charm and rare plants abound at an event in Hex, Belgium

      Stallholders at the Mandragora nursery stall
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      John Aglionby
      How my allotment makes me a profit

      The economics of the allotment make little sense in pounds and pence but in terms of health and wellbeing there are many returns

      Illustration of two people exchanging a bouquet of flowers and a handful of vegetables with each other
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      House & Home
      Rooms full of blooms at the Strawberry Hill Flower Festival

      Sustainable British floristry is showcased inside Horace Walpole’s ‘little Gothic castle’ in Twickenham

      Room decorated with floral designs
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      Not much of a garden? Plant bulbs in layers to maximise spring flowering

      Crocuses, irises and tulips at varying depths can prolong the magic in a small space

      A pink themed layered bulb container planted with Narcissus ‘Thalia’, Tulipa ‘Synaeda Amor’ and Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Pink Giant’
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      How to grow your own orchard

      They have benefits for people, pollinators and the planet, which explains why efforts are under way to fight their decline

      People planting fruit tree guilds and incorporating forest gardening into the site
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      Rain gardens offer a first green line of flood defence

      The right mix of soil, plants and design can combat the wetter weather and sharper downpours brought by climate change

      A garden teeming with flowers, leafy plants and trimmed grass
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Robin Lane Fox
      A cart ride through Boston’s tree-filled treasure

      Arnold Arboretum has served the world’s gardens for 150 years, and plans to do so for centuries more

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