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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
