A list of gardeners at kew, 1842–1868

FOR those without a garden of their own – or perhaps without one big enough to grow all they want to grow – owning an allotment can be a vital sanctuary, a community and a productive space. There are

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

Tucked into a corner of the leafy and fertile North Shropshire countryside, the garden at Goldstone Hall Hotel feels far removed from the tumult of modern life. Wrapped in the rolling landscape, its a

Cecil and his pug dog in his indoor ...

Beyond Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, other figures are synonymous with Sissinghurst – not least Sibylle Kreutzberger and Pamela Schwerdt, joint head gardeners from 1959 to 1990. They were l