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Gardens

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    Nietzsche, Burke and the secret to a happy garden

    The answer is plants that thrive, and so make us smile — here are three that lead the way

    A close-up of two fuchsia flowers, which are a red-purple on their sepals and a dark purple blue on their skirts
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Monsteras, Inc: artist Jonas Wood’s pot plant obsession

    The artist has done his bit to advance the cultural kudos of the houseplant — and vice versa

    A man sits on a leather sofa, wearing trousers in leaf-pattern print. Beside him is a huge potted plant in a large decorative pot
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Sophie Heawood
    Worse than meeting your heroes is revisiting a former home

    If you love somewhere you once lived, cherish the memories. But don’t be tempted to go back . . . seeing what the new owners have done rarely works out well

    A woman stands outside a lush, green garden gate, framed by stone walls and greenery, wearing a soft pink jacket, with bright sunlight casting shadows across the scene
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    The only way is Essex?

    RHS Hyde Hall’s dry clay soil shows us what the gardens of the future could look like — to varying effect

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Diary of a garden rescue: Patrick Grant goes on an orchard replanting crusade

    In the third in a series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge plants damsons, figs, apples and walnuts — a gift to future generations

    Two men stand in an orchard. Mark is wearing orange shorts and a straw hat, and Patrick is wearing a blue shirt and dark trousers
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Inside Hardy Amies’ garden: ‘an opera in four acts’, rewritten

    When David Freeman inherited a beautiful 18 square metre garden from the Queen’s couturier, he was not afraid to make changes. The result is a sensitive tribute to a mischievous man

    A central path running between two raised beds, with a cone-roofed summerhouse at the end
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    Future-proof spring: what to plant now for a spectacular 2025

    It’s not all about the tulips. Taking a punt on autumn-sown annuals and biennials can boost next year’s blooms

    A painted lady butterfly on a eupatorium boneset flower
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    FT Series
    House & Home City Living Special

    In this special edition, we look at the changing face of Mayfair, talk to architects from Karachi to Xi’an embracing ‘sponge tactics’ to mitigate flooding, step inside a Singapore garden home, and spotlight design tips for the growing rental market

    Elevated view of a very green area, a former riverbed, which is now filled with greenery with a few paths crossing it
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home City Living Special
    Architect Leonard Ng: ‘Nature is beautiful, it doesn’t require design’

    He helped make Singapore a garden city, and the same ethos informs the design of his home

    A man stands outside the window of a modern house, beside a large tree
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home City Living Special
    The inner-city alleys being turned into paradise passages

    Several of the UK’s northern cities are transforming once neglected passageways into bucolic oases; community spaces filled with urban art, herb gardens — and civic pride

    An urban alleyway in between the backyards of two rows of terraced houses, the walls of which are lined with potted plants and flowers
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #85: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate in Washington, DC

    At the neo-Georgian mansion, the cereal heiress and entrepreneur served frozen food on Sèvres porcelain to a stream of guests — and her spirit lives on

    A large, grand red-brick house with four central columns sits on a manicured lawn surrounded by trees
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    Bed time for badger-proof bulbs

    ’Tis the season to plant narcissi, snowdrops and other corms that triumph in the face of wildlife attacks

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    House & Home
    Painting the Moon: ‘It felt as exciting as exploring a foreign country’

    For four years, artist Tor Falcon trudged out in all weathers to make regular portraits of our nearest heavenly body — and learned a lot about how it shapes our nature.

    Woman, outside on a garden lawn, leaning against one of two cart wheels attached to a portable wooden bed
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Ron Finley’s garden protest: ‘The drive-throughs are killing more people than the drive-bys’

    The designer-turned-horticulturalist turned his verge into a veggie plot — and started a movement. Now he is creating a verdant installation as part of an epic LA art exhibition

    Ron stands among garden plants and graffitied concrete blocks
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Tradition takes on tech in the garden master plan

    Garden design is at an intriguing inflection point. What is the value in the hand-drawn master plan, when a AI and other software can do a lot of the work?

    A grand red-brick mansion has formal geometric gardens at the front
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    HTSI
    The untamed nature of Arne Quinze

    For the Belgian artist and sculptor, life begins in the garden

    Arne Quinze in the painting studio near his home in Sint-Martens-Latem
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    The darling buds of September

    Weeding and deadheading now are among the quick fixes that will encourage a profuse second flowering in the weeks ahead

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    My garden in August has never looked more magnificent

    Cool conditions have set the scene for stupendous displays of crocosmia, hydrangea and phlox

    white phlox flowers with spots of purple at the centre
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    House & Home
    The strange ubiquity of floral festoons on the high street

    Shopfronts, museums and even chemists’ doorways are surrendering to an invasion of faux flowers that defy the seasons. Will nothing be spared?

    Beautiful floral arrangement adorns the entrance the exterior of a boutique
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Travelista
    Five glorious gardens to get lost in

    Escape to these island sanctuaries, from a composer’s paradise on Ischia to a Prussian folly

    Giardini La Mortella on Ischia, at the former home of William Walton and his wife, Susana
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    House & Home
    Zen and the art of hanging out the washing

    Sheets billowing in gardens and huge knickers strung from balconies slows us down, wrests us from screens — and is inspiring a generation of artists and makers

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    A new garden ‘room’ for Wollerton Old Hall

    Over 40 years, Lesley Jenkins has continually reshaped this Shropshire landmark with her painter’s eye — and recent changes are particularly superb

    A formal garden pathway lined with neatly trimmed conical topiary trees and round shrubs, leading towards an ornate gate in the distance. The scene is shaded by the large, twisted branches of an overhanging tree
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Escape to the garden shed — and ‘a feeling of somewhere far away’

    The antithesis of the WFH Modernist box, these retreats are a return to the wonkily handmade, the lyrical and the eccentric

    A rustic workspace with a weathered wooden desk filled with pots, art supplies and an industrial lamp. The backdrop is a large window that frames a garden outside
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    How to grow mushroom pot plants – fungi while they last

    Cultivate them in a box kit and fry them up. But the real magic is in their sculptural, surreal and slightly creepy beauty

    A burlap sack filled with vibrant, coral-colored mushrooms, set against a dark background with a small stack of books on the right
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Robin Lane Fox
    Buddlejas are all aflutter

    Despite a distinct lack of painted ladies and red admirals, the majestic butterfly plants are more popular than ever

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