Luscious, romantic and inviting, English gardens are all the rage in garden design. You’ll find English-style gardens all over the world, across many climate zones and landscape types. As it happens, ...

Tim Richardson used to be Country Life’s gardens editor, so you know what you’re getting with The Arcadian Friends. It’s primarily about the intricate social and political connections of those who ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gardens, unlike dragons, do not live for ever. Nowadays, they become items of research. The past 40 years have seen a ...

After celebrating “Capability” Brown’s tercentenary so thoroughly in 2016, it seems appropriate to look at gardens made before his time, places that he is often accused of having wiped from the face ...

Carefree and flowing, the English cottage garden boasts an informal design and a plethora of flowers. Exuding grace and charm, it’s the antithesis of the formal French garden. “Gertrude Jekyll ...

The Romans introduced gardens to England but its popularity grew following the Dark Ages. The Romans were the first to introduce gardens to England but its popularity began to rise when Anglo-Saxon ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. William Kent is sometimes seen as the founder of the English landscape movement, the style which helped to ...

Maybe you’re a people person? How about the great outdoors or driving? Any of these interests might apply to the jobs that are available at English Gardens, which will be hosting two job fairs in ...

Two English cottages, one thatched, one tile-clad, lie all but buried in a high summer profusion of shrubbery, brambles and thick hedges, a white picket gate hanging open at the bottom of the painting ...