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  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    Summer of loveliness: bedding plants that promise masses of blooms

    Even for latecomers to bedding out, these varieties will provide a season-long profusion of flowers

  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    FT SeriesSunshine Living Special
    Shady characters: what to plant for a cool garden refuge

    Wisteria and grape vines can help create an escape from the sun amid expectations of another hot summer

  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    HTSI
    The landscape architect, the nuns, and the forest of the future

    Enzo Enea’s friendship with his Cistercian landladies has helped establish a Swiss ‘Tree Museum’ – and inspired an installation at this year’s Art Basel

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    My personal Chelsea Flower Show gold

    Our columnist is smitten by a Korean ‘masterpiece with wild flowers far more fascinating than British bindweed and buttercups’

  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    UK prime property
    Bloom or bust: homebuyers are still chuffed with Chelsea

    Sales have slowed in the enclave that hosts the Flower Show but prices are attractive compared with other high-end London areas

  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    HTSI
    24 buys to cultivate garden style

    Grow your fashion credentials this season

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    Community gardens: ‘We all come here to heal’

    They can help with conditions from obesity to loneliness. No wonder more health professionals are ‘green prescribing’

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    Chelsea Flower Show preview: dinners, deals and delphiniums

    Our columnist’s first event was 60 years ago, but he still finds much to look forward to

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Chelsea Flower Show
    Will nettles win medals at the Chelsea Flower Show?

    With its low-carbon aesthetic and sustainability focus, this year’s event puts ‘the Plants Formerly Known as Weeds’ centre stage

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Luke Edward Hall
    How to furnish a garden

    ‘I’m really not a fan of grey, plastic furniture in the garden. I much prefer natural materials and a feeling of lightness’

  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    From pests to pathogens: how healthy is your horticulture?

    National Plant Health Week aims to educate people about keeping local plantlife safe from potentially devastating disease

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    Manna from Le Manoir: growing veg in Raymond Blanc’s kitchen garden

    The author spends a morning sowing seeds at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons gardening school

  • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
    HTSI
    Five garden gadgets that really cut it

    A Mars rover-like mower, personal weather station and more

  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    Alpine plants in the ascendant

    The best response to losses from frost and wet is to replenish your stocks and replant immediately

  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    The soundtrack of your garden

    Man-made wind chimes and aeolian harps are fine but the natural music of rustling plants and rushing streams is most soothing

  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    A horticulturist’s green-fingered guide to New York

    Thomas Broom-Hughes, who tends to London’s Petersham Nurseries, shares his favourite places to find flourishing plant life amid NYC’s concrete jungle

  • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
    Horticulture’s hidden history and the politics of paradise

    Gardens have always been bound up with privilege and power, colonialism and cultural appropriation. A new exhibition speculates on their future role

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    The grass is not always greener in Piet Oudolf’s ‘aesthetic of decay’

    Robin Lane Fox takes issue with the work of the Dutch garden designer renowned for New York’s High Line

  • Monday, 24 April, 2023
    Residential
    Five of the world’s best homes for sale with landscaped gardens

    From Mallorca to Manhattan, prime property where the outside is as impressive as the inside

  • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
    It’s edimental, my dear: how to mix edible and ornamental plants

    A gardening style that yields beauty as much as sustenance is also ebullient, experimental and fun

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    Plant some climbers for wall-to-wall happiness

    Star jasmine, passion flower, clematis and ivy are some of winter’s best survivors

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    HTSI
    The HTSI wedding special 2023

    How to walk the aisle in style, and other ways to mark the big day (without being boring)

  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2023
    The wild beauty of foraged flowers

    Meet the florists turning hedgerow weeds into magical arrangements

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    Robin Lane Fox
    Britain’s most lovely private gardens — 3,500 of them — open to the public

    The National Garden Scheme provides planting inspiration while raising money for charities

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    Top shear: the FT test drives three (very loud) battery-powered lawnmowers

    ‘Birds reached for their ear protectors, foxes begged for mercy’ — decibels aside, how efficient are the new generation of ride-on mowers?

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