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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    HTSI
    Exbury, the Rothschilds’ garden refuge

    Marie-Louise Agius and her uncle Lionel de Rothschild are cultivating a shared passion at the family’s 200-acre Hampshire estate 

    Marie-Louise Agius and Lionel de Rothschild in Exbury Gardens
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    How To Spend It In...
    My paradise in Panama City, by Fernando Wong

    The landscape designer finds peace in the lush vegetation and plazas of his Central American hometown

    Fernando Wong in the bar at the Amarla Boutique Hotel
  • Sunday, 12 January, 2025
    Gardens
    Climate lessons from a royal garden in Addis Ababa

    As a programme of exchanges between global heritage sites and the UK’s National Trust properties draws to a close, horticulturists are swapping mitigating tactics for combatting climate change

  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Gardens
    How does your garden glow?

    Clever illuminations of plants can create silhouettes and shadows that capture movement, texture and hidden poetry

    Two chandeliers suspended from the branches of a large tree illuminate a dark, nighttime scene
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s guide to making this festive season the best ever
    Inside the brilliantly bonkers Wintershall nativity

    Sisters Charlotte de Klee and Henrietta Fiddian-Green have staged a festive pilgrimage on their estate for decades. It’s a thing of wonder

    From left: Mike Keane (a shepherd in the nativity), Henrietta Fiddian-Green, Joss Stoddart and Rupert de Klee
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Sunshine Living Special
    Landscape designer Fernando Wong: I always start with a tree

    An architect by training, he creates outdoor ‘rooms’ on tropical estates in Florida and the Bahamas

    large tree, hedges and water pool
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Gardens
    For the love of Piet Oudolf, landscape designer

    The Dutchman who popularised the naturalistic New Perennial style is still innovating as he approaches 80

    large garden with many different coloured flowers and grasses in foreground; large red barn-like structure in background
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Gardens
    Beauty and the balcony: horticulture is not just for house dwellers

    At RHS’s inaugural urban gardening show in Manchester, flat dwellers and renters can learn how to make a verdant refuge

    a balcony filled with plants overlooking the city of Manchester
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Can John and Jack Whitaker make Olympic showjumping history?

    One is going for his seventh Games, the other for his first. It’s an uncle vs nephew rivalry to relish

    John Whitaker (left) on Pretzel and Jack Whitaker on Ava at John’s farm in Yorkshire
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Gardens
    Does lunar gardening really work or is it promising the moon?

    Advocates claim that just as the moon’s waxing and waning affects ocean tides, it affects our soil’s moisture levels

    flowers in front of a full moon
  • Saturday, 9 December, 2023
    HTSIHow To Give It 2023
    Damian and Freya Aspinall’s wild ambitions

    The conservationist and his daughter share a radical vision for the future of endangered species

    Freya Aspinall with Zemo the lion cub at Howletts Wild Animal Park
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Gardens
    How to make your winter garden glow

    Banish bleakness with brightness and visually arresting plants that produce colour, scent, sound and movement

    View across frost on frozen pond, Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’, Cortaderia selloana, Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
  • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
    Gardens
    Rain gardens offer a first green line of flood defence

    The right mix of soil, plants and design can combat the wetter weather and sharper downpours brought by climate change

    A garden teeming with flowers, leafy plants and trimmed grass
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Gardens
    New window on the secret life of orchids

    As RHS Wisley opens a dedicated space for its 3,000 varieties, fresh light is shed on the oddities of these mysterious plants

  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    Gardens
    From pests to pathogens: how healthy is your horticulture?

    National Plant Health Week aims to educate people about keeping local plantlife safe from potentially devastating disease

    People shopping at Battersea Flower Station
  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    House & Home Christmas Special 2022
    Combat Christmas excess with recycled and organic decorations

    Inventive and eco-friendly trees, baubles and table settings

    Woman making Christmas arrangement with fir branches and dried oranges
  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    Gardens
    Apples not the only fruit in an RHS orchard overhaul

    New cultivars, an eco-friendly redesign and education on home growing are introduced at Wisley

    A woman walking in an orchard, holding a basket of apples by her waist
  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    Gardens
    How the ‘no dig’ approach takes the toil out of gardening

    Leave spades aside and soil undisturbed for better pest control, carbon storage and crop production

    Man in a garden with Pak Choi harvest
  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Gardens
    The postmodern garden of Througham Court in the Cotswolds

    A haematologist-turned-landscape-architect has used her fascination with science to create some extraordinary spaces

    Christine Facer Hoffman at Througham Court
  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Gardens
    The artist as gardener: ‘I look at my garden as if I’m going to paint it’

    The fashion designer and illustrator Virginia Johnson shows the FT her urban sanctuary in Toronto

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Chelsea Flower Show 2022
    Chris Beardshaw wins Chelsea gold for his RNLI garden

    The designer was lured back to the event by a charity dear to his heart

    A garden with an oak pavilion at the rear
  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Gardens
    Right on Kew: plants that tackle our throwaway food culture

    A programme at the botanical gardens focuses on shifting attitudes and growing vegetables sustainably

    The Kew kitchen garden
  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Gardens
    The literary garden: preparing the ground for Sissinghurst’s future

    Vita Sackville-West’s vision is respected while also being updated for an era of climate change and conservation

    Garden hedges with castle in the background
  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    Gardens
    Federal Twist, James Golden’s naturalistic nirvana

    How the New Jersey gardener transformed a morass of weeds into a soul-nourishing refuge

    Plants that have thrived in the inhospitable terrain are a mix of natives and imports
  • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
    Gardens
    How to grow a jungle

    One man’s passion for foliage has transformed a quiet Kent cul-de-sac into a dramatic, lush space

    Philip Oostenbrink in his jungle garden in Kent
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