Horticulture
The National Garden Scheme is the perfect antidote to Chelsea’s vanity
Shortly before the New Gardens Organiser at the National Garden Scheme (NGS) is due to arrive at our farmhouse in…
The great British flower revival
When Juliet said of Romeo that ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’, she spoke a common…
Blessed be the fruit
Laura Freeman is transported by J.C. Volkamer’s astonishingly beautiful ode to the citrus
A choice of gardening books
‘Whither the novel’ was a great dinner party topic in the 1960s. It is a question less aired these days,…
Culture and horticulture
Edward Bawden’s Kew Gardens is a beautiful book. Lovers of early 20th-century British art will find it hard to stop…
