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

Love, not anger

Van Gogh’s letters and paintings reveal a lover of flowers and gardens. Robin Lane Fox is inspired by his marvellous eye for colour

Sowing kit

Robin Lane Fox surrounds himself with this season’s seed catalogues, an especially enticing retreat in the cold, wet and dark British winter

Gravel unravelled

Robin Lane Fox suggests adding fine pebbles to your flowerbeds to vastly improve drainage and even conserve moisture

Appetite for desert

Robin Lane Fox finds a wealth of ideas among the cacti of the Desert Garden section of the Huntington Library’s Botanical Gardens – California’s most famous desert landscape garden

Blessings and curses

Pitched into a snowy, frozen Christmas break, Robin Lane Fox looks backwards and forwards at the turn of a new gardening year

Fox outfoxed

Robin Lane Fox wonders how to matriculate a clutch of unwelcome garden residents: a bantam, a pheasant and an impudent fox

Floral showdown

In preparation for Christmas, Robin Lane Fox entreats the help of a personal flower trainer with roots in English flower gardening and a sense of humour

The year’s best gardening books

Robin Lane Fox highlights the best new books, covering topics ranging from vegetable-growing to and little auriculas

Rules of green thumb

When it comes to garden design, Robin Lane Fox finds it extraordinarily difficult to lay down any but the most obvious guidelines

Clearing the stage

After three years of admiring his flower borders in full autumn, Robin Lane Fox realises this season that the plants have started running over each other

Blaze of glory

Ninfa-mania

Turn some old leaves

Turf war

Ripe old age

Under the volcano

Out, damned spot

War of the roses

The American connection

A renowned beauty