A guide to contest aquascaping

I AM LUCKY enough to own most of the aquascaping books by the famous Takashi Amano, the godfather of aquascaping and an inspiration to a generation (perhaps now two) of aquarists. The books are filled

It was while filming an episode of Lewis in an Oxford college garden that Tom Simpson fell in love – and within moments decided to abandon his peripatetic life in film and retrain as a garden designer

In winter, when the art school here at Benton End closed for the year and the garden fell quiet, Cedric Morris would head to warmer climes to escape the chill of his 16th-century house, but also to pa

Fancy being featured in the next issue of Practical Fishkeeping Magazine? Showcase your work and share your photographs with the Fishkeeping community – if you have a tank you’re proud of, we want to

Nearly 20 years ago, we bought a house in north London, not just for the building itself, but because hidden behind the terraced row was a secluded garden – a delightful surprise in this central Londo

When, at the age of 12, Inga Nikitiniene first saw a photograph of the pineapple orchid, Dendrobium densiflorum, her response was instinctive. “I knew immediately that I wanted to have this plant. I d