Gardening

Who's Frank?: An east London community project is making a horticultural hullabaloo of unsung heroes

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Seemingly arbitrary names have been springing up in flowerbeds across east London. Except there's nothing random at all about artist Joshua Sofaer's dazzling community project, says Emma Townshend

House & garden: How one London home seamlessly blends outside and in

Saturday, 4 July 2009

It's rare to find a home that combines the two so organically – and effectively too, says Anna Pavord

Weekend Work: Time to cut off the suckers

Saturday, 4 July 2009

The Ten Best Outdoor Living Essentials

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

With sunny days and long evenings beckoning, Andy Sharman picks his 10 best outdoor-living essentials

Kenilworth Castle gardens have undergone a major restoration thanks to high-tech surveying – and a remarkable 16th-century letter

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Who writes letters now? Proper letters with descriptions of where they've been, what they've seen, who they've met? Historians of the future are going to have a thin time with the 21st century and its texting and e-mailing. "C U @ 7 – OK?" doesn't give you much to work on. The immediacy of letters is what makes them so appealing: Vita Sackville-West reporting to Harold on a bad day with the roses at Sissinghurst, Keats burbling to his brother about a Lakeland pilgrimage to see Wordsworth. Much depends on the skills of the letter writer of course, and Robert Langham was ideally equipped to give the brilliantly detailed account of the new garden at Kenilworth Castle, which he wrote in 1575.

Weekend Work: Time to shear back the foliage

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Crawling with great ideas: The 'future garden' festival focuses on conservation and insect-friendly innovation

Sunday, 21 June 2009

"When I was a kid, growing up in wartime London," says David Bellamy, "there were butterflies everywhere." Clouds of African butterflies have been back in Britain this May, reminding us of what we have lost. Several million Painted Ladies dropped in from Morocco for a summer stint in our green and pleasant gardens, providing a tantalising glimpse of the riches of the past.

Weekend Work: Let the house plants enjoy an outdoor summer season

Saturday, 20 June 2009

Rose-tinted spectacle Who can imagine an English garden without roses?

Saturday, 20 June 2009

It's been 15 years since the eminent gardener Christopher Lloyd threw the roses out of his rose garden at Great Dixter in Sussex, planting tropical bananas, cannas and castor oil plants in their place. Then, it was as if someone had chucked the baboons off the Rock of Gibraltar. There were full-page spreads in the national press. You expected questions to be raised in the House. In horticultural societies throughout the land, members debated whether this was the end of the world as they knew it.

Gift of plants and trees transforms school's garden

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Donation from Chelsea show garden turns primary's grounds into a lush oasis