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

The Royal Institute of Philosophy at 100

GH ’s Simon Swift considers what future generations might make of our decisions about what to keep and what to let go of

What is a legacy garden? If historic gardens are those we preserve in recognition of their significance to our horticultural past, then perhaps legacy gardens are those we value because they were conj

Why do we like what we like?

A flawed comparative study of eastern and western philosophies