• January 22 2026
  How to fill your winter garden with scent

  Daphne, camellia and mahonia can perfume the colder days

  
• January 16 2026
  Robin Lane Fox

  Bewitched by the romance of a Belgian garden

  Enchantment blooms in every corner of Kalmthout Arboretum

  
• January 14 2026
  Patrick Grant’s diary of a garden rescue

  Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant adopts a hedgehog

  The wild, unkempt corners of the garden prove the perfect safe haven for Pumpkin, an abandoned male hoglet who needed a new home

  
• January 10 2026
  PerspectivesIsabella Tree

  Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding a garden is not about closing the gate and letting it go’

  Rewilding doesn’t mean abandoning — it means gardeners becoming a ‘keystone species’, creating a habitat where wildlife can thrive

  
• January 9 2026
  Robin Lane Fox

  The Millennium Seed Bank’s restoration quest is more urgent than ever

  As its collection rises to nearly 2.5bn, there are signs it is making progress in its ambition to preserve the world’s flora — and restore endangered species

  
• January 2 2026
  Jonathan Guthrie

  Urban foxes — friend or foe? 

  Removing or deterring these garden trespassers is a lifetime vocation. But should they even be considered a problem in the first place?

  
• January 2 2026
  Robin Lane Fox

  A pragmatist’s guide to growing box, yew, cotoneaster and myrtle

  Evergreens are the backbone of a beautiful year-round garden — if you know how to nourish and protect them

  
• January 1 2026
  The ‘Hamnet’ guide to growing medicinal herbs

  The film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel shines a light on oft-forgotten botanical remedies

  
• December 24 2025
  PerspectivesLucy Brazier

  A tiny beacon of trust: the joy of the honesty box

  Tables laden with veg, eggs or honey in exchange for a few coins have become a global movement — and tell tales of resilience, community and truth

  
• December 22 2025
  Patrick Grant’s diary of a garden rescue

  Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant heads to the blacksmith

  Major surgery at the forge brings back some Georgian grandeur to a metal gate and railings

  
• December 19 2025
  Robin Lane Fox

  Time to find sustenance in a renewed flowering of botanical art

  While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated

  
• December 18 2025
  FT SeriesHow to throw a sensational New Year’s Eve party

  How to host a midwinter feast at Hepple Estate? Just add gin

  A dinner near the distillery in remote Northumbria calls for venison, snow and a cocktail druid

  
• December 12 2025
  Robin Lane Fox

  Plants are for life — not just for Christmas

  Many foliage decorations will be lost to central heating — or to frost if replanted. Here are some enduringly beautiful alternatives

  
• December 6 2025
  PerspectivesTony Putman

  Birds of a feather: how I became friends with a robin

  Gardener Tony Putman’s experience flies in the face of preconceptions about relationships between humans and wildlife

  
• December 6 2025
  FT SeriesHouse & Home Festive Special 2025

  The gifts that top gardeners really want

  Eight horticultural experts, from Mary Keen to Miranda Brooks, reveal what’s on their wishlists this year

  
• December 6 2025
  Charlie Harpur

  Goodbye to all flat — how to create a garden where plants and wildlife thrive

  It’s time to embrace bumps and lumps, says the head gardener at Knepp, the rewilding project in West Sussex

  
• November 29 2025
  Interiors

  Tiny treasures: the best bud vases for winter blooms

  A pine branch, rosehips or a few berries call for luscious, luminous Lilliputian vessels

  
• November 28 2025
  Robin Lane Fox

  Hardy veterans have produced some of 2025’s best gardening books

  New gardeners have no need to reinvent the wheelbarrow — the best advice can be gleaned from years of experience, shared

  
• November 28 2025
  House & Home

  The row at Rousham: who is protecting the English landscape?

  Gardeners are decrying the potential destruction of historic landscapes if planning for a housing development — and a new town — is approved. Could it be more than nimbyism?

  
• November 22 2025
  The best plants and flowers to give as presents

  Gifts that keep on blooming — from seeds to bulbs to bare-root roses — offer the promise of beauty and scent to come

  
• November 21 2025
  The best books of the year 2025

  The best gardening books to read this year

  Lauren Indvik selects her must-read titles

  
• November 21 2025
  Robin Lane Fox

  Hocus-crocus: Greece’s saffron specialists work their magic

  In Macedonia, it takes the filaments of 150,000 flowers to make a kilo of the world’s most precious, unadulterated spice

  
• November 19 2025
  HTSI

  The best florists in the world

  A global guide to the finest blooms

  
• November 10 2025
  FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Living Special 2025

  How to nurture the sculptural, frosty magic of a winter garden

  Trees with majestic silhouettes, leaves like Tudor jewels, and backlit ornamental grasses give a garden the elegant bone structure for year-round beauty

  
• November 8 2025
  House and Home Unlocked

  The Michelin-pedigree chef breaking the kitchen garden rules

  The Clove Club’s Isaac McHale was keen to spice up his menu with heritage and exotic veg, so he found a plot of land and started planting