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It’s smart to beat the spring shopping surge — just remember there can be frosts until June
But control them in an environmentally friendly way — and acknowledge that molluscs also have their merits
A programme at the botanical gardens focuses on shifting attitudes and growing vegetables sustainably
A new book divulges grottoes, toy hermits and a ‘parlour of Venus’ of questionable taste
How to illuminate a garden at night without confusing and disrupting wildlife
How a prison-based planting scheme is helping inmates pot, prune and propagate their way to new happiness
Vita Sackville-West’s vision is respected while also being updated for an era of climate change and conservation
‘I use inexpensive containers to hold my tulips: I always like a simple glass cylinder, and I adore a bucket’
They may struggle in their native environment due to climate change but do well in pots or on balconies
Madcap visions and miniatures fill a landscape architect’s guided tour through the stranger corners of English garden design
Knepp Castle in West Sussex is a model of rewilding but a similar effect can be achieved at home
Let your imagination – and your flowers – run wild
The right pruning, sowing and weeding techniques will reward you with long months of beauty and bounty
Two new books address the challenges of cultivating in a confined or concrete area
From urban superblooms to specialist turf, everyone should have a field day this summer
City gardening has its advantages but the countryside boasts the primeval pleasures of stars, silence and wild flowers
A vase of tulips, an eclectic centrepiece or even an Easter wreath
The miniature trees are cherished in all seasons, blooming or bare
A past encounter in the Ukrainian city’s neglected gardens recalls a similar one in Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’
Prime property for green-fingered buyers
It was a trial in many ways but an idyll for growing, experimenting and contemplating the beauty of plants
In spring, a young man’s fancy turns to garden furniture
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
How to trim it, torch it and twitch it in your own backyard
Ordered now for planting in April, these varieties will offer near foolproof flowering
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