Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The planting season is becoming more inviting. The weather is warming, the centres have good plants on offer ...

There are many sweet-smelling shrubs and a number whose flowers hold the distinction of having a lovely orange fragrance. Perhaps the least known of this fraternity is the Mexican orange blossom, ...

I have three blueberry bushes in pots with ericaceous compost. They are kept watered. I have tried them on the patio where the sun shines from late morning and in a sheltered part of the garden. They ...

For the part of my garden that is accessible to deer and gophers, I am constantly on the lookout for hardy, evergreen shrubs that can serve as a defining backdrop to bulbs and perennials, and that are ...

I was just walking around the gardens looking for some plants I have not written about in a long, long time. I have been a garden writer since the mid 1970s and have written about almost every single ...

The foliage of Choisya 'Aztec Pearl' is narrow and finger-like. Dear Helen: An unusual shrub I saw in bloom earlier this month was identified as a Choisya (Mexican orange blossom), but the leaves were ...