Vivienne Lewis reviews a lavish new book on the scenic wonders of Stourhead, which also traces the generations of a family d…

by Vivienne Lewis How exotic the first pineapples must have looked to people in Britain when they first arrived here in the …

In the Victorian period orchids were the ‘must-have’ plants and 19th century status symbols – and plant hunters were sent by…

Research has highlighted something we probably all knew – that since World War II gardening has changed almost beyond …

by Vivienne Lewis For gardeners the name of Edwin Lutyens is said in the same breath as the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.…

A century ago the ‘War to end all wars’ was still raging. The battle of Passchendaele, also known as the third battle of Ypr…

Imaginative topiary and a wonderful knot garden attract visitors to a delightful three-acre Cotswolds garden Surrounding the…

The bestselling Victorian garden writer with the unusual name brought gardening to the masses in this country in the 1870s w…

Arsenic, strychnine and nicotine were just some of the poisons used by Victorian gardeners who thought nothing of using them…

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown changed the face of eighteenth century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving h…