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    Robin Lane Fox

    Gardening Columnist

    Robin Lane Fox writes a gardening column for the FT Weekend supplement.

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Gardens
      A Flemish festival of flowers

      Courtesy, charm and rare plants abound at an event in Hex, Belgium

      Stallholders at the Mandragora nursery stall
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Gardens
      Not much of a garden? Plant bulbs in layers to maximise spring flowering

      Crocuses, irises and tulips at varying depths can prolong the magic in a small space

      A pink themed layered bulb container planted with Narcissus ‘Thalia’, Tulipa ‘Synaeda Amor’ and Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Pink Giant’
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Gardens
      A cart ride through Boston’s tree-filled treasure

      Arnold Arboretum has served the world’s gardens for 150 years, and plans to do so for centuries more

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Gardens
      How to be an octogenarian icon

      The stories of a high-class landscape gardener and mass-market guru Martha Stewart intersect on a trip to the US

      Aerial view of geometric garden with central gazebo
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Gardens
      The challenges of growing clematis

      This beguiling plant is a climber but needs the support of wire or a companion plant to flourish

      Clematis Perle d’Azur
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Gardens
      The Irish gardens that rose from somnolence to magnificence

      Glasnevin and Kilmacurragh have been transformed by public funding and a newfound enthusiasm

      The herbaceous borders at Glasnevin
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Gardens
      The flowers that are raining champions of Britain’s wet summer

      A profusion of roses, lavender and hollyhocks eases the pain of plants that have been lost

      Hollyhocks ( Alcea rosea ) growing in a garden
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Gardens
      A walk on Wildside, a gardener’s heaven in Devon

      Keith Wiley seeks to evoke thousands of years of nature at work ‘in the twinkling of an eye’

      A man in blue shirt stands among the flowers and foliage
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Gardens
      Notes from a warm climate

      Two Greek gardens show the wisdom of Mediterranean plantings in an age of global warming

      Succulents in the Mediterranean Garden Society garden at Sparoza
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Gardens
      Five steps to put your garden in holiday mode

      Follow these tips to prepare plants for your absence and ensure they are thriving on your return

      A woman (partly hidden from view) shears off a dead flowerhead with secateurs
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Gardens
      Fight garden inflation with your own cuttings

      Propagating plants is not just part of the joy of gardening — it is now an economic imperative

      lavender cuttings and re-potting
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Gardens
      Walk on the wild side with rambling roses

      In this best of blooming years, the ramblers add a sense of grandeur to the garden

      Pink, white and white-pink flowers and green foliage at  Moor Wood rose garden
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Gardens
      Green shoots after Greece’s devastating 2021 fires

      The forests of Euboea were turned to ash in the blaze but, two years later, there are lessons in its gradual recovery

      Quercus euboica resprouts after the fires
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Gardens
      East Ruston in full bloom after 50 years

      Far-sighted planning and tireless diligence have created a half-century to celebrate in this favoured corner of Norfolk

    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Gardens
      Back from the brink

      After a harsh winter, some plants will be a write-off but don’t rush to despair too soon; surprises await

      Rose Buff Beauty
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Gardens
      My takeaways from the Chelsea Flower Show

      This year’s impressive displays inspired some replacements for winter losses

      Light violet flowers
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Gardens
      Summer of loveliness: bedding plants that promise masses of blooms

      Even for latecomers to bedding out, these varieties will provide a season-long profusion of flowers

      Yellow-flowered Bidens ferulifolia with verbena and petunias among other plants in a terracotta pot
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Chelsea Flower Show
      My personal Chelsea Flower Show gold

      Our columnist is smitten by a Korean ‘masterpiece with wild flowers far more fascinating than British bindweed and buttercups’

      A woman in a traditional Korean dress sitting amid a garden, takes part in a medicinal tea ceremony
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Chelsea Flower Show
      Chelsea Flower Show preview: dinners, deals and delphiniums

      Our columnist’s first event was 60 years ago, but he still finds much to look forward to

      A visitor photographs colourful tulips on the Bloms Bulbs display inside the Great Pavilion at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Gardens
      Manna from Le Manoir: growing veg in Raymond Blanc’s kitchen garden

      The author spends a morning sowing seeds at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons gardening school

      A walled kitchen garden with a house in the background
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Gardens
      Alpine plants in the ascendant

      The best response to losses from frost and wet is to replenish your stocks and replant immediately

      Gentians
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Gardens
      The grass is not always greener in Piet Oudolf’s ‘aesthetic of decay’

      Robin Lane Fox takes issue with the work of the Dutch garden designer renowned for New York’s High Line

      Museo Chillida Leku, Hernani, Spain, 2019
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Gardens
      Plant some climbers for wall-to-wall happiness

      Star jasmine, passion flower, clematis and ivy are some of winter’s best survivors

      Asiatic jasmine in full bloom
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Gardens
      Britain’s most lovely private gardens — 3,500 of them — open to the public

      The National Garden Scheme provides planting inspiration while raising money for charities

      Stoneleigh Down, Bristol
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Gardens
      Easter seeds and weeds: the plants to grow and those to deter

      The long holiday weekend is a good time to apply mulch and to plan for summer flowers

      Hydrangea Runaway Bride
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