• September 19 2025
  Gardens

  The bulbs to plant now for a stunning spring display

  Zone in on the varieties that can withstand inclement weather — and rogue wildlife

  
• September 12 2025
  Gardens

  Inspiration for city roof gardens that reach new heights

  A marvellously restored site atop a former department store in London’s Kensington raises the bar for sky-high planting

  
• September 5 2025
  Gardens

  Constable country is as precious as his paintings

  The Suffolk ponds, mills and hay wains depicted in his work have long disappeared, but in Salisbury many of his viewpoints are intact — though a threat looms

  
• August 29 2025
  Gardens

  It’s time to drench, deadhead and decapitate your garden

  As the holidays end, gardens are likely showing signs of neglect. Here’s how to fix them for the year ahead

  
• August 22 2025
  Gardens

  Cut flowers, but make them Beaton

  Time to embrace the photographer and designer’s theatrical approach to blooms, in all its wildness and glamour

  
• August 15 2025
  Gardens

  Lessons in spinach

  America’s Seabrook family built a frozen vegetable empire from its pioneering spinach farms. For gardeners — as for business leaders — its story provides both inspiration and caution 

  
• August 8 2025
  Gardens

  What really counts as butterfly-friendly planting?

  For more species to stay put rather than fly south we need to give them a year-round garden habitat, not just a summer resort

  
• August 1 2025
  Gardens

  Lessons for coping with drought from Great Dixter

  Fergus Garrett’s free-spirited stewardship goes against the grain with dense planting, mulching, loam composting and ‘wildish’ self seeding

  
• July 25 2025
  Gardens

  Border control: an agile agenda for Kew’s new director of gardens

  How will Raoul Curtis-Machin guide the botanical gardens in an era of cuts and climate change?

  
• July 18 2025
  Gardens

  Succulent lessons from Versailles’ 17th-century kitchen garden

  A reimagining of Louis XIV’s potager — a historic hotbed of planting and pruning knowhow — gleans tips for the modern age

  
• July 11 2025
  Gardens

  When in drought . . . planting for a parched summer

  This long dry season calls for a portfolio approach, hedging your bets rather than root-and-branch restructuring

  
• July 4 2025
  Gardens

  Waterloo sunrise: replanting the famous Belgian battleground

  Destroyed in 1815, the Hougoumont estate is now emerging from a 10-year restoration project — but how can the gardens combine melancholy and flowery charm?

  
• June 27 2025
  Gardens

  A rose is a rose — but are old or new varieties king?

  This year’s turbocharged profusion of blooms reawakens an age-old debate . . . 

  
• June 20 2025
  Gardens

  Midsummer tips and tricks for the beginner gardener

  Bewildered by advice and choice? Here’s a guide to what, where and how to plant this June — to delight both the eyes and the taste buds

  
• June 13 2025
  House & Home

  A glorious garden romp à la Jilly Cooper

  When the current owner’s grandmother bought Cadenham Manor in 1945, she spent years developing the four-acre garden — recently featured in the ‘Rivals’ TV series. And there is much to quicken the pulse beyond naked tennis

  
• June 6 2025
  Gardens

  Solutions to planting problems of a dry, dry spring

  The long dry spring has created a profusion of flowers, to the delight of most gardeners — but not those who are behind on their planting

  
• May 30 2025
  House & Home

  ‘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

  
• May 23 2025
  Chelsea Flower Show

  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

  
• May 16 2025
  Gardens

  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

  
• May 9 2025
  Gardens

  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

  
• May 2 2025
  Gardens

  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

  
• April 25 2025
  Gardens

  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

  
• April 18 2025
  Gardens

  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 . . . 

  
• April 11 2025
  Gardens

  Follow the Yellow Book road: a handbook of great British gardens to visit

  The National Garden Scheme’s thousands of participants offer a microcosm of horticultural and social evolution, inspiration — and, if you’re lucky, tea and cakes

  
• April 4 2025
  Gardens

  At last, a leader who isn’t tariff obsessed . . . 

  Jahangir, the Mughal poet, was a ‘seizer of worlds’, hunter of lions and heavy drinker — but he was also a lover of plants and hater of customs duty