Twenty six years ago, Italian writer and gardener Umberto Pasti fell asleep beneath a remote fig tree on a stony hillside facing the Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles south of Tangier. When he awoke, he knew t

The borders in Jānis Raubiška and Martin Paley’s garden look as though they are having a party. Planting designer Jānis says he doesn’t have any time for pastels – he finds them boring. Fireworks are

Exhibition of the week Anna Ancher: Painting Light ...

For artist Nellie Shepherd, the landscape outside her painstakingly renovated farmhouse is just as important as the colourful scene inside it

AS the days remain dark and gloomy in the UK and our garden plants retreat from winter’s chill, the flowers in the Southern Hemisphere continue to open their petals to a glorious summer. Like the flow

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