A German prince reshaped the historic Muskau Park on the Polish border along English lines

Nearly $40m a year is available to support the site’s commitment to ornamental gardening and education

A husband and wife team have created a beacon of high standards

The structure set out by Russell Page in the 1950s has been largely preserved but with a few simplifications

The gardens throughout the Aga Khan Centre refer to Muslim traditions

The end of season is a time to reflect on which plants blossomed and what might still surprise

Botanic gardens rediscover the 18th-century fashion for Chinese style

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