John Hoyland never misses a chance to scour a second-hand bookshop for old gardening books, not only for advice, but for a glimpse into past gardening lives

The imagined gardens within the pages of our favourite books can seem as real as the flower beds outside our door. Here, author Sandra Lawrence explores three evocative literary landscapes

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Last spring, I held a funeral for a hedge. It was a cobbled-together ceremony for us to share our grief for the ‘singing hedge’ that had been cared for by our late neighbour for decades. The previous

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...