Nearly 10 years ago, El Niño storms prompted Andrew Epstein to begin the process of converting his English garden in Studio City into a drought-tolerant landscape. After El Niño wiped out all of the ...

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 ...

The English landscape style, born in Britain 250 years ago, can help us design our own gardens today. The style was influenced by popular paintings of pastoral landscapes. It re-created classical ...

For Sherman Oaks-based designer Karen Tandy, interior and exterior design work together in creating an inviting home base. “They work hand in hand,” Tandy says. “People need to look at a home’s ...

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 ...

Too often, when we start drawing up plans for our gardens, we tend to focus on the plantings and patio furnishings first. While this approach isn’t necessarily wrong—since these elements can create ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s new book is, as befits its subject, a glorious cabinet of ...