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Robin Lane Fox

Gardening Columnist

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

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Gardens
    How the fairies shrunk the wild flowers in the Burren

    A rich convergence of plants from the Alps to the Arctic to the Med grace this rocky limestone region of western Ireland

    low growing purple flowers on rocky terrain
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Gardens
    Rhododendrons enjoy a Himalayan spring in Wiltshire

    This year’s cool and wet weather has helped the plant’s vigour and proliferation at a wooded haven of rarities

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Gardens
    Betting on the weather for bedding out plants

    Daisies, petunias, fuchsias and salvias are ready to inject colour and drama, as long as frost is at bay

    Close-up of purple flowers in a plant pot
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Gardens
    The champions of the Chelsea Flower Show

    The outdoor gardens show a variety and skill far wider than were on display in the 1960s

    The colourful display amid the winding slate-stone paths in Matthew Childs’ garden for the Terrence Higgins Trust
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Chelsea Flower Show
    Can Chelsea Flower Show sustain itself?

    Detractors rue the event’s scale and waste but it still offers untold inspiration to gardeners

  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Gardens
    How I learnt to love the plant varieties I once shunned

    A visit to a Norfolk garden leads to a dramatic conversion regarding a trinity of lifelong hates

  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Gardens
    Why growing alpine plants is a mountain to climb

    Excessive heat in summer and endless wet in winter have led to casualties — but there is hope yet

  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Gardens
    Spring has been fast, slow and grim for gardeners — but glorious too

    Rainfall has deprived us of the warmth and light of the sun, but a lack of frost has meant a prolonged period of early flowers

    wisteria blossoms on the front of a house in London
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Gardens
    Notes from a small vegetable garden

    The possibilities have multiplied recently for gardens in tight spaces, from pots to patios, buckets to balconies

  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Gardens
    Anticipation is part of the art of gardening

    Plant summer and autumn-flowering bulbs now and reap the pleasure in the months to come

    triteleia Queen Fabiola
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Gardens
    An English garden that is a tribute to transient beauty

    Seize the moment and visit the RHS flagship Wisley, in Surrey, where shortlived blossoms have been at their best

    A man on a ladder inspecting cherry trees
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Gardens
    Easter is a good time to resurrect your garden

    Catch up, clear up, plant and re-engage, and don’t forget to attend to those early weeds

  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Gardens
    Why I am blown away by windflowers

    Otherwise known as anemones, their versatility and beauty makes them a perfect addition to the garden

  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Gardens
    Lessons from the doyenne of Dutch bulbs

    Thought you knew everything there was to know about planting bulbs? Read the new book by a great expert

  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Gardens
    The horticultural marvels of a Mediterranean spring

    It is magical to leave behind Britain’s sodden crocuses to be immersed in a topsy-turvy Greek February

  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Gardens
    Six essential plants for the beginning gardener

    Easy initiatives that include lilies, roses, daisies and the imperishable bergenia

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Gardens
    Get to know orchids beyond the supermarket shelf

    Millions grow in extraordinary variety around the world and many are on show now in botanic gardens

    purple, pink and yellow vanda orchids
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Gardens
    Sunflowers are not the only blooms in Van Gogh’s paintings

    His last works depict roses, ranunculus, gladioli and hollyhocks, all deepening the gardener’s sense of colour and rhythm

    ‘Mademoiselle Gachet in Her Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise’ (1890)
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Gardens
    How to choose a colour scheme for your garden

    Visits and books can help you decide on a spectrum, whether it is softly modulated or spectacularly contrasting

  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Gardens
    It may be midwinter but summer gardening starts here

    Ignore the gloom and anticipate the bloom by choosing seeds to sow early

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Gardens
    Sustainable solutions at Sarasota’s botanical gardens

    As counterparts around the world struggle to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, this one in Florida leads the way

    Tillandsia ionantha, a red and purple exotic-looking flower
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Gardens
    Berries bring colour to a wet winter

    Cotoneasters are the most under-appreciated shrubs in cultivation, even offering a hedge against pollution

  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Gardens
    Pesellino’s floral triumphs

    The flowery foregrounds in the Florentine artist’s biblical works, on show at the National Gallery, set him apart as a master of botanical details

  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Gardens
    A crocosmia coup and other mysteries of the gardening cosmos

    We can but try to learn from a year of contrasting weather that caused horticultural surprises

  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Gardens
    The gift of gardening

    Three books explore what horticulture has meant to people from very different walks of life

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