Capability Brown

A walled garden in Suffolk yields up its secrets

25 May 2024 9:00 am

When Olivia Laing began restoring the former property of a garden designer, she had no idea of the beauty that lay hidden by rampant weeds

Primula auricula

Calm after the storm

23 May 2015 9:00 am

I hesitate ever to criticise an author for the inappropriateness of a book’s title, since it’s more likely the fault…

Design by William Kent for a cascade at Chatsworth, c.1735–40; below, the Bute epergne, 1756, by Thomas Heming, designed by Kent

The gardens of Kent

12 April 2014 9:00 am

How important is William Kent (1685–1748)? He’s not exactly a household name and yet this English painter and architect, apprenticed…

This other Eden

5 October 2013 9:00 am

Sam Leith is transported by the finest scenery in England