James wong

The garden designer and TV presenter who is campaigning to make a metre matter

The founder of White House Farm Garden and Arboretum in Kent on his enduring love of woody plants and hopes for the future I grew up amid rolling farmland, surrounded by birds, flowers and trees, and

Our gardens have difficult histories. As a historian of empire, writing a book re-telling the stories of America’s plants, I spend swathes of my day reckoning with them. Most of the plants we grow wer

Rob Brett has one of the leading jobs in UK horticulture and he is revelling in it. As curator of RHS Garden Wisley – appointed in March 2025 – he is responsible for a 240-acre site that houses one of

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Hidden at the end of a narrow lane in the historic village of Stoke Goldington lies a plant lovers’ paradise, carved out of the landscape by owners Emily and James Chua over almost 30 years. Their rem