The climate zeitgeist is turning to backyards, but better ratings and rewards are needed to convince us all of their true power
For the editor, the season begins with cloudless skies, the seaside and a favourite denim shirt
A tiny garden in Somerset is feeding the designer’s floral empire
The artist’s work with movement, space — and time — has inspired three recent exhibitions, and a newly planted memorial
The landscape designer tours the verdant highlights of the area
In northern Thailand, the creative and his horticulturist husband have let their aesthetic run wild
In pots and on patios, alpines including sweet and hardy dionysias, androsaces and saxifrages enliven even the most petite gardenscape
These flowers may be notoriously demanding to grow, but their smiley, happy faces are worth the trouble
Matthew Pottage is using imaginative plantings, ‘conscious compromise’ and a sense of theatre to transform the green spaces
Koos Bekker’s Somerset country-house hotel was the Chelsea Flower Show’s headline sponsor. Now he is taking matters into his own hands
Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, the perfect companion to the British spring, has surprising lessons for gardeners
Planting, pruning, digging and tending can feel like an escape. But they are also a way of engaging with the world
The Wiltshire estate’s custodians are carving out a model for how to make the estate ecologically and financially sustainable — and horticulturally engaging
MAD Brussels brings together dozens of tiny homes
Wild flowers and vegetables, topiary and terraces are a rich seam of inspiration for interior designers — but the latest crop feels particularly transporting
Avoid the traps: don’t be fooled into buying what’s in flower now. Impatience comes with a huge price tag
April sees the much-anticipated public opening of Field Nursery, from the millennial Mary Keen describes as a “walking plant encyclopedia” and “an artist as well as a gardener”
A new book explores 900 years of forests and their history and culture — from Finland to Siberia to war-torn Ukraine
Aggregates are touted as the ecological solution to longer, drier summers — but let’s not give up on soil for drought-resistant plants just yet
The centenary of the great rosarian Joseph Pemberton’s death is a beautiful excuse to revisit these hardy, floriferous and intensely scented varieties
Transforming his ‘brutalist masterclass’ of a walkway into an elegant, meandering sweep turns out to be a somewhat Herculean challenge
Terremoto’s low-intervention approach allows for something missing in contemporary landscape design: serendipity and a sense of the unknown
The next two weekends are an opportunity to future-proof the garden by keeping moisture in the soil, blocking weeds and deterring slugs and snails
The plantswoman who single-handedly brought dahlias back into fashion and nurtured the UK through Covid had become a perennial in the horticultural firmament. Then it all went wrong
As life replaces death in springtime, gardeners can’t help but ponder some existential questions
