As an unashamed fair-weather gardener, I can’t help but feel the pangs of “back to school” sadness every Sunday night as we slide towards autumn. I am simply not ready to pack my shorts and flip-flops ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The British fall cannot match the autumn colours on trees along much of America’s east coast or away in Pakistan’s ...

Sorbus are easy to grow and their gorgeous berries provide a visual winter feast On an unobtrusive corner of my neighbourhood is a tree so good I have taken to pointing it out to anyone I am with, and ...

This was a case of love at first sight. But instead of a crowded room it was Stephanie Richard's garden at Eastleach House near Lechlade in Gloucestershire. I rounded a corner on a misty morning in ...

The genus Sorbus comprises more than 250 tree and shrub species whose leaves, fruits and bark have long been used in traditional remedies for inflammatory disorders. Modern phytochemical analyses have ...

Conservation management plans for one of Bristol’s historic woodland sites are being shaped by new findings about the complex reproductive biology of some rare tree species. Simon Hiscock Conservation ...