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  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    HTSI
    Meet topiary’s top scissorhands

    The winners of the inaugural Topiary Awards at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival are a cut above

    The Somerset garden of Hugh Johnson
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    HTSI
    The small perfection of flower painting

    The natural world offers us a sense of the sublime. No wonder we want to preserve it

    Red, White, Pink Anemones and Leaves in Tin Can, c1966, by Albert York, hung at the Loewe AW24 catwalk show in Paris
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    The Aesthete
    Model, muse and novelist Penelope Tree talks taste

    The fashion legend loves Australian art, her birdsong app and Co-op champagne

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    HTSI
    How to create a child-friendly garden

    The way to win the battle between green time and screen time

    A garden design by Terremoto Studio in Eagle Rock, California
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    HTSI
    10 UK gardens to visit this bank holiday weekend

    From 80,000 narcissi at Anne Boleyn’s house in Kent to Tom Stuart-Smith’s garden at Yorkshire’s Hepworth Wakefield

    Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHTSI’s holiday gift guide 2023
    16 presents for gardeners and nature lovers

    Cookware, clothing and compost for green-fingered friends

    Clare Coulson’s garden in Suffolk
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    FT SeriesA summer garden special
    Charlotte Molesworth’s cuttings edge

    How a 40-year labour of love transformed a topiary garden into a place of pilgrimage

    Charlotte Molesworth in her Kent garden, created over 40 years
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    InterviewHTSI
    Chaumet pays homage to the pansy

    Why the jewellery house is giving the humblest flowers the haute treatment

    Chaumet white-gold, diamond and sapphire Pensée necklace, POA, and white-gold, diamond and sapphire Pensée ring, POA
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special
    Suffolk – the coast with the most

    A new wave of restaurateurs, producers and chefs have turned this understated county into the food destination to know

    James Jay, head chef at The Suffolk, on the beach in Aldeburgh
  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2023
    The wild beauty of foraged flowers

    Meet the florists turning hedgerow weeds into magical arrangements

    Floral arrangements by JamJar Flowers for a wedding at Spring restaurant, London
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    HTSI
    The new mania for historic tulips

    Growers are going wild for the luminous beauty of heritage bulbs

    Garden Tulips, 2021
  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    HTSI
    Is your living room Jurassic Park enough?

    Goodbye geranium, hello houpara as the houseplant goes totally jungle

    The Clapton Tram Shed Studio, London
  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI holiday gift guide 2022
    16 presents for gardeners and craft lovers

    HTSI’s contributing editor picks gifts for chic countryside living

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    HTSI
    What’s the buzz about whisky in Wiltshire?

    The grounds created by landscape gardener Todd Longstaffe-Gowan at Nicola Reed’s country estate have ignited an unusual business 

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    FT SeriesA summer garden special
    How to grow your own meadow 

    From urban superblooms to specialist turf, everyone should have a field day this summer

    Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof in Germany
  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    HTSI
    Collecting: the blooming market for Dutch floral paintings

    These marvels from Holland’s golden age are being seen with fresh eyes

    ‘Shells and Flowers’ by Balthasar van der Ast, sold by Christie’s in 2012
  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
    Health and wellbeing: six ways to get back to nature
    Feeling broody? Meet the chicken boy

    From rescue to rare breed, Arthur Parkinson is the thinking person’s hen fancier

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Snow escape: where to find winter fun in the great outdoors
    The ethereal beauty of the garden in midwinter

    Nature in hibernation – tended with clever horticultural calculation – is just as magical as midsummer

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    HTSI
    The irresistible rise of the rose

    A boom in sales for the most traditional of flowers has seen tastes shift as gardeners fall for wilder varieties

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    FT SeriesA summer garden special
    ‘Right plant, right place’ – the greener garden guide

    As drought and flooding become a common feature of the European summer, we meet the sustainable horticulturalists trying to combat climate change

  • Friday, 28 May, 2021
    HTSI
    A bloom of one’s own: when florists turn farmers

    In search of rare, idiosyncratic colours, scents and forms, these floral designers turned growers have gone back to the roots

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    FT SeriesA summer garden special
    The shape of yew: topiary at the cutting edge

    Perfectly trimmed shapes bring ornamental drama to a naturalistic garden

    Topiary domes in a private garden in Worcestershire by topiarist James Todman
  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    HTSIThe Hope Issue
    Work, rest and weed: Dan Pearson and his partner Huw Morgan share their garden vision

    They searched for 10 years to find a perfect project. And found their Eden at Hillside

  • Saturday, 17 April, 2021
    FT SeriesA summer garden special
    Beautiful abandon: the romance of the ruin

    Ravished by rambling roses and tumbledown walls, Sleeping Beauty gardens are like a fairytale brought to life

    Landscape designer Dan Pearson created a time-forgotten look for the gardens of Torrecchia Vecchia, a 1,500-acre estate south of Rome
  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    HTSI
    The world’s best antique and vintage furniture stores

    A global guide to the greatest second-hand interior haunts

    Alex MacArthur at her shop in Rye, East Sussex
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