Gardening’s original bad girl

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

Jenny Whitmore had one priority in mind when she started designing her West Sussex garden: the view. “It was what captivated me when we first came to look at this house and I knew immediately that any

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

Garden TOUR

When I think of garden visiting, I think of walking through an enticing gate and gasping at the hazy, romantic abundance of midsummer at its soaring, delicately coloured loveliest. I think of sitting

Ghosts of the Farm: Two women’s journeys through ...