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Robin Lane Fox

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

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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Gardens
    In search of the most heavenly roses for a church garden

    A trip to David Austin’s show gardens in Shropshire provides inspiration

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Gardens
    Heaven on Perth: a priceless collection of rare alpines in Scotland

    Plants from the Himalayas, the Antipodes and beyond are thriving at Branklyn Garden

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Gardens
    Which plants will flower all through summer?

    Species such as weigela, salvia and choisya will prolong the pleasure of seasonal blooms

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Chelsea Flower Show
    Choice of Chelsea: the best bedding bets for summer

    The exhibitors at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show were on hand with plenty of advice and inspiration

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    Gardens
    Robert Mapplethorpe’s flowers of romanticism and rage

    The photographer’s floral images embodied his passions and contradictions, as highlighted in a new exhibition

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Gardens
    My Chelsea Flower Show choices

    Our columnist’s favourites, a verdict on the judges’ selections and a tribute to a veteran of the trade

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Gardens
    A tale of a temple and the heaven-sent fragrance of honeysuckle

    As the flowers come into bloom, a visit to a hidden London landmark reveals a display of this most classical of motifs

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Gardens
    Buy your bedding plants early but put them in the ground late 

    It’s smart to beat the spring shopping surge — just remember there can be frosts until June

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Gardens
    The ‘Henley Matterhorn’ and other eccentric English gardens

    A new book divulges grottoes, toy hermits and a ‘parlour of Venus’ of questionable taste

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Gardens
    Alpines with attitude: mountain plants that thrive at low altitude

    They may struggle in their native environment due to climate change but do well in pots or on balconies

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Gardens
    Six tips to bring new life to your garden at Easter

    The right pruning, sowing and weeding techniques will reward you with long months of beauty and bounty

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Gardens
    Why nothing compares with a rural garden

    City gardening has its advantages but the countryside boasts the primeval pleasures of stars, silence and wild flowers

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Gardens
    Recollections of Odesa’s botanical gardens

    A past encounter in the Ukrainian city’s neglected gardens recalls a similar one in Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Gardens
    A gardener nostalgic for lockdown

    It was a trial in many ways but an idyll for growing, experimenting and contemplating the beauty of plants

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    FT SeriesThe joys of a spring garden
    Six of London’s loveliest spring gardens

    The FT’s gardening columnist selects just a few of the many glorious green spaces across the capital that are unmissable as they wake up from winter

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Gardens
    Bulbs to light up the summer

    Ordered now for planting in April, these varieties will offer near foolproof flowering

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Gardens
    The rediscovered Georgian landscapes of painter Thomas Robins

    His works only came to light 50 years ago but offer us a window on to the world of 18th-century gardens

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    Gardens
    Bitten by the plug-plant bug

    Buying ready-made plants can save you the frustration — or the fun — of nurturing your own

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    Gardens
    A potted guide to hepaticas

    Short on space? Take inspiration from our columnist’s 65-year love affair with this Japanese favourite

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Gardens
    The natural reflections of Charles Darwin’s father

    Robert Darwin’s garden diary brings us closer to the Victorians — and to the formative years of a boy who would go on to change the world

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Gardens
    Borders of the first order

    From preparing the soil to giving plants the room to thrive — here are the essentials for starting new flowerbeds

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    Gardens
    On the trail of George Orwell’s roses

    Rebecca Solnit’s book shows the writer’s love of gardening, animals and nature was grounded in his vision of an ideal society

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    Gardens
    The hedges to bet on

    This garden staple comes in many forms and fulfils different purposes. Here’s how to choose

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Gardens
    Do garden climbers have you climbing the walls?

    If success with ramblers and ivies eludes you, read our columnist’s tips

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Gardens
    How to plan for a magnificent 2022 garden

    Build a framework, then take into account climate change and a longer growing season — and nature’s unpredictability

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