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  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    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, 13 May, 2022
    Jonathan Guthrie
    Slime against humanity: snails and slugs are the gardener’s scourge

    But control them in an environmentally friendly way — and acknowledge that molluscs also have their merits

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Right on Kew: plants that tackle our throwaway food culture

    A programme at the botanical gardens focuses on shifting attitudes and growing vegetables sustainably

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

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

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Outdoor lighting, seen in a new light

    How to illuminate a garden at night without confusing and disrupting wildlife

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    How To Spend It
    The Cause: the women spreading hope through house plants

    How a prison-based planting scheme is helping inmates pot, prune and propagate their way to new happiness

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    The literary garden: preparing the ground for Sissinghurst’s future

    Vita Sackville-West’s vision is respected while also being updated for an era of climate change and conservation

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Luke Edward Hall
    In a fancy vase or a jam jar, let the flowers do the talking

    ‘I use inexpensive containers to hold my tulips: I always like a simple glass cylinder, and I adore a bucket’

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Robin Lane Fox
    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, 22 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    English Garden Eccentrics — curiouser and curiouser

    Madcap visions and miniatures fill a landscape architect’s guided tour through the stranger corners of English garden design

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    In your rewildest dreams: how to create a naturalistic landscape

    Knepp Castle in West Sussex is a model of rewilding but a similar effect can be achieved at home

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    FT Series
    The joys of a spring garden

    Let your imagination – and your flowers – run wild

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Robin Lane Fox
    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, 15 April, 2022
    The balcony scene: how to grow veg in a small urban space

    Two new books address the challenges of cultivating in a confined or concrete area

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe joys of a spring garden
    How to grow your own meadow 

    From urban superblooms to specialist turf, everyone should have a field day this summer

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Robin Lane Fox
    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, 8 April, 2022
    Countryside Living Special
    Interesting ways with spring floral displays

    A vase of tulips, an eclectic centrepiece or even an Easter wreath

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
    The home in 50 objects from around the world #24: bonsai

    The miniature trees are cherished in all seasons, blooming or bare

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Robin Lane Fox
    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’

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Residential
    Five of the world’s best homes for sale with beautiful gardens

    Prime property for green-fingered buyers

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Robin Lane Fox
    A gardener nostalgic for lockdown

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

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Luke Edward Hall
    Why ruin a beautiful garden with evil, grey, synthetic furniture?

    In spring, a young man’s fancy turns to garden furniture

  • 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

  • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
    FT SeriesThe joys of a spring garden
    Cutting-edge gadgets for the garden

    How to trim it, torch it and twitch it in your own backyard

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Robin Lane Fox
    Bulbs to light up the summer

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

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