Reader Caroline Crocker celebrates her chance to reclaim the family garden to create a plant lover’s paradise with a focus on climate resilience.

From a milliner inspired by topiary to a model-turned-ecological gardener and a couple who swapped jobs in telecommunications for growing vegetables, Sir David Beckham’s rural heroes tell Julie Harding why craft and the countryside are key

The verges of Britain’s roads are home to an astonishing array of rare plants. We meet the botanical artist championing these neglected spaces

In his final column for the season, Joe Swift looks back at a memorable year — and work for the months ahead

New document from charity fights for legal recognition to protect historic landscapes, reports Ian Hodgson

The Labour administration will reap what it has sown, but Richard Negus spells out what a future government can do to regain the trust of agriculture