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Plants provided a link and a lifeline to the people who were uprooted from home
Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart took the same hands-on approach to plantings at Mount Stewart as she did to women’s suffrage
A desire for self-sufficiency — and to cut plastic packaging — inspires young and old
Some of the most scenic US highways owe their allure to the principles of Humphry Repton
The Russian playwright’s appreciation of the natural and medical worlds has inspired a series of ‘healing’ spaces
Deadly wildfires have sharpened the focus on plantings to mitigate the risks
Tulips, crocuses and irises will ensure a profusion of colour next spring
Jac P Thijssepark was set up to engage the public with the Dutch natural landscape
Pretence can trick Mother Nature into sparing plants from her often cruel ways
Allotments tended by retired fishermen provide a Michelin-starred establishment with local produce
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
Professor of tree pathology bought ‘a forest with a house inside’ in the Italian Alps
‘The rock garden has definite charm. It effaced the puzzles of ancient Greek texts from my mind’
The custodians of the grand gardens in the Veneto now have to make their properties pay
A donkey called Lightning and careful planning can help plots survive the current drought
Her English country revivalist style may have drifted out of fashion but her influence is far-reaching
Among the artist’s paintings of war and action in a major exhibition at the Louvre are works showing a fine appreciation of flowers
Florilegium documents ‘probably the most unique wild flower meadows left in Europe’
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
Titles and qualifications are not the only qualities to consider
A show at the New York Botanical Garden has reunited flower paintings with the plants that inspired them
