Plants provided a link and a lifeline to the people who were uprooted from home

Tulips, crocuses and irises will ensure a profusion of colour next spring

Pretence can trick Mother Nature into sparing plants from her often cruel ways

Some gardens are bereft of the colourful migrants this year

This colourful flower is celebrated in India, but sometimes despised in the UK

Plants vary in their willingness to root, so it pays to begin with easy ones

Hemerocallis flowers are shortlived but the plants bloom for weeks

‘The rock garden has definite charm. It effaced the puzzles of ancient Greek texts from my mind’

A donkey called Lightning and careful planning can help plots survive the current drought

Among the artist’s paintings of war and action in a major exhibition at the Louvre are works showing a fine appreciation of flowers

Gregory Long’s presidency shows institutions can flourish with private cash while maintaining their principles

Gardeners in France and the UK take very different approaches to deadheading flowers

A show at the New York Botanical Garden has reunited flower paintings with the plants that inspired them

An Oxford college’s garden provided the ideal ‘grassy grove’ setting in which Oedipus met the gods in a staging of a Greek drama

Seeing Edmund Loder’s hybrids is like finding movie stars of the 1930s still blossoming

There is much to make life easier, including water-retaining gel and pre-selected plant mixes

Skillful and stylish — but spare us the weedy-washy Wellbeing Garden

The Temperate House merits at least two visits

The memoirs of John Sales, former head of gardens for the National Trust, throw light on questions of conservation

These small plants thrive in containers, making them godsends for city gardeners

The gardener’s status as an artist has had its ups and downs but his reputation as a breeder of some of the finest irises endures

Even the most compact spaces can yield bountiful harvests

The landscape designer, who died last month, won three golds for the FT gardens at Chelsea

Varieties of the weed-blocking plant continue to proliferate