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As Walt Whitman recognised, a well-tended compost heap is a magical, sustainable thing
Botany and ancient history meet in a journey to a country where this tree grows wild and prolifically
Today’s florists capture the ephemeral beauty of life between the vase and the compost — and it’s a far cry from granny’s potpourri
A canter down the historic Roman road — and alongside homes belonging to Italian film goddesses
A new book offers guidance through the ‘proliferating jungle of roses’
Designers transform eerily derelict post-industrial landscapes into gardens with ‘a strange and fertile beauty’
HTSI’s contributing editor picks gifts for chic countryside living
If you are enjoying this year’s displays, these varieties can replicate them in your own garden
Autumn gardens are full of their shiny, sticky webs. Whether they fascinate or frighten, spiders loom large in the human psyche
The Gardiner Estate has fascinated locals for centuries. Now its owner has opened up its doors
A 10-year project has made the gardens and wild areas of Gloucestershire property a haven of biodiversity
Daisies and salvias can create a painterly spectrum worthy of Cézanne
From Urban VIII to the current Pope Francis, holy men have enjoyed havens in and around Rome
New cultivars, an eco-friendly redesign and education on home growing are introduced at Wisley
Both parties contributed to interior and exterior elements of the finely preserved Grade I listed property
Robin Lane Fox revisits the great Kent garden and an exhibition about its famous creators
Which gardens should outlive their creators, how should they be managed — and where will the money come from?
La Fête des Plantes is refreshingly non-corporate and charmingly French
On show at London’s Garden Museum, the works are as arresting and raw as his portraits of humans
‘So prolific were London apples that there are varieties named after its suburbs: Hounslow Wonder and the Merton Joy’
Through history monarchs and gardeners have ignored tradition, as with the ‘not narrowly British’ flowers on the Queen’s coffin
How to update your horticultural skillset at a time of environmental crisis
It used to supply King George III — now it uses sustainable methods the new monarch would approve of
Several projects with disused elevated railway lines launch amid debate about gentrification
No sooner has summer ended than it is time to think of next spring’s flowers — why not experiment?
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