Once you have noticed the texture on a hand-thrown flowerpot, it’s impossible to use factory made again, says Tiffany Daneff, after a visit to Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire

It’s probable that there isn’t anyone else in England making silk flowers in quite the same way Anne Tomlin does. Inspired by her garden and the chalk meadows near her West Sussex home, she makes life

I was born in the Bollenstreek, the stretch of land between The Hague and Haarlem in the Netherlands, famous all over the world for its bulb fields. My father was a bulb farmer who grew tulips, daffod

Kay Maynard explains how her first-ever garden has become a wildlife-friendly haven with year-round interest

Raku ceramicist Catherine Lucktaylor talks about finding inspiration on the Cornish coast

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