Border control: an agile agenda for Kew’s new director of gardens
How will Raoul Curtis-Machin guide the botanical gardens in an era of cuts and climate change?
How will Raoul Curtis-Machin guide the botanical gardens in an era of cuts and climate change?

Historic landscape gardens need defenders to ward off development

Matthew Pottage is using imaginative plantings, ‘conscious compromise’ and a sense of theatre to transform the green spaces

Meet the former horticulturist who specialises in the ‘botany of doom’

Gardeners are decrying the potential destruction of historic landscapes if planning for a housing development — and a new town —…

Troy Scott Smith is coaxing the grounds back to Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson’s original vision — and sharing his…

The climate zeitgeist is turning to backyards, but better ratings and rewards are needed to convince us all of their true power