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    Robin Lane Fox

    Gardening Columnist

    Robin Lane Fox writes a gardening column for the FT Weekend supplement.

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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Gardens
      The happy valleys of hepaticas

      A new book tracks these delightful plants around the world with erudition and enthusiasm

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Gardens
      How to give structure to a garden

      Gardens do not simply emerge, they must be shaped in terms of spacing, soil, height and colour

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Gardens
      Purple peas and other cutting-edge veg to grow in the garden

      After December’s excesses, look ahead to planting wholesome varieties, both old friends and new entrants

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Gardens
      The darling shrubs of May: six essential hardy plants

      These choices will have your garden in flower by the end of that month

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Gardens
      Lessons from last year’s gardening roller-coaster ride

      From torrential rains to summer drought, from heatwave to brutal cold spell, plants were tested as rarely before

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Gardens
      ‘Truss in Boots’, a panto for our times

      This year, I managed to get a front-row seat for the annual badgers’ New Year extravaganza in my garden

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Gardens
      Ravishing roses to riveting books: Christmas gifts for gardeners

      Our columnist’s selection offers plentiful inspiration

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Gardens
      Through Turkey’s liquidambar forest

      Botany and ancient history meet in a journey to a country where this tree grows wild and prolifically

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Gardens
      I did it my Appian Way

      A canter down the historic Roman road — and alongside homes belonging to Italian film goddesses

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Gardens
      The irrepressible rose

      A new book offers guidance through the ‘proliferating jungle of roses’

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Gardens
      What trees to plant for glorious autumn colour

      If you are enjoying this year’s displays, these varieties can replicate them in your own garden

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Heinrich Schliemann: adventurer, thief — hero?

      The spectacular and chequered history of the German amateur archaeologist offers lessons for mid-life career changes

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Gardens
      Sixteen shades of blue: an autumnal garden spectacle

      Daisies and salvias can create a painterly spectrum worthy of Cézanne

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Gardens
      God’s country: the Italian gardens where popes have trodden

      From Urban VIII to the current Pope Francis, holy men have enjoyed havens in and around Rome

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Gardens
      A burst of Sissinghurst

      Robin Lane Fox revisits the great Kent garden and an exhibition about its famous creators

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Gardens
      Escape to the flower show at Château Saint-Jean de Beauregard

      La Fête des Plantes is refreshingly non-corporate and charmingly French

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Gardens
      Funereal wreaths and other royal reinventions

      Through history monarchs and gardeners have ignored tradition, as with the ‘not narrowly British’ flowers on the Queen’s coffin

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Gardens
      Kew’s kitchen garden is fit for an eco-King

      It used to supply King George III — now it uses sustainable methods the new monarch would approve of

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Gardens
      Break new ground with bulbs you’ve never planted before

      No sooner has summer ended than it is time to think of next spring’s flowers — why not experiment?

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Gardens
      Why the paulownia may be the tree of the future

      The paulownia, or empress tree, is good at surviving drought and hosepipe bans. Others may need your help

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Gardens
      Cuttings edge: how to propagate plants at low cost

      As prices in garden centres mount, taking your own cuttings is an economical antidote

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Gardens
      My garden’s post-drought postmortem

      The UK’s heatwave has proved too much for some plants — but others show stoic resilience

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      Gardens
      Gardeners, take comfort in the kitchen 

      When droughts and heatwaves make life in the garden difficult, cooking with your own produce is a rewarding distraction

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      Gardens
      Rosa Bonheur: the painter who gave her name to a peony

      The once-forgotten French artist is now the subject of a new book and exhibition

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Gardens
      Hot but not bothered: which plants best resist high temperatures?

      ‘Yuccas and thistles are untroubled by the heat, but I do not want a prairie of spikes and prickles’

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