The sweet spot

What a year 2025 was for plants! Ian Hodgson and Rachel Reeves take a look back…

Brilliant pops of colour from these reliable favourites

Liz Zorab chooses her favourite plants inspired by the skies

A brief history Pisum sativum, our humble pea’s ancestry originates from the ‘fertile crescent’ in Levant and Mesopotamia region from the Persian Gulf to the Nile River. Foraging pea was initially a s

Step into a magical winter garden in the Weald of Kent, where cyclamens, hellebores and crocuses add splashes of pink and purple to the white carpet of snowdrops

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff