Soil type: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline, Moist ...

Flowering shrubs are ideal for adding structure ... snowballs – without the frostbite. Deutzia flies under the radar, but it shouldn’t. Its cascading, star-shaped white and pink flowers ...

I like those neglected 18th-century features, "green theatres". Every year, we put on a Greek play in the gardens of my Oxford college and, once, I allowed the goddess Artemis to appear as a coup de ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...