Luscious, romantic and inviting, English gardens are all the rage in garden design. You’ll find English-style gardens all over the world, across many climate zones and landscape types. As it happens, ...

Tim Richardson used to be Country Life’s gardens editor, so you know what you’re getting with The Arcadian Friends. It’s primarily about the intricate social and political connections of those who ...

WHEN GARDEN lovers list our region’s best botanical creations, the one named for Carl S. English Jr. at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard is often included. For 43 years English, whom the Army ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gardens, unlike dragons, do not live for ever. Nowadays, they become items of research. The past 40 years have seen a ...

After celebrating “Capability” Brown’s tercentenary so thoroughly in 2016, it seems appropriate to look at gardens made before his time, places that he is often accused of having wiped from the face ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s new book is, as befits its subject, a glorious cabinet of ...

Two English cottages, one thatched, one tile-clad, lie all but buried in a high summer profusion of shrubbery, brambles and thick hedges, a white picket gate hanging open at the bottom of the painting ...