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 ...

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 ...

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 ...