Gardening

major works by Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor and Marc Quinn, and the biggest Charles Jencks landform in the world appear in Jupiter Artland

The big march: seeking out the UK's best gardens

While the rest of the country is glued to the World Cup, Emma Townshend will be traversing the UK exploring the best that the new 'Good Gardens Guide' has to offer

Inside Gardening

Kew here: preparing a garden for the public

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Anna Pavord hands out tips and advice to our green-fingered charity auction winners

Weekend Work: Put in Brussels, sow annuals and thin bamboo

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Put in Brussels sprout plants. Choose plants that have been grown in the open ground if possible. They make straighter, tougher plants than seedlings grown in trays.

Chelsea Flower Show: The pick of the bunch

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, a riot of horticultural delight, colour, gardening ingenuity and competitiveness, opens to the public today.

It's turning out gloriously for the Chelsea Flower Show

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

After years in the doldrums, Britain's top flower show is back in fashion. Victoria Summerley celebrates.

Our guide to the Chelsea stereotypes

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

There are almost as many different human varieties on display at the Chelsea Flower Show as they are floral ones. We pick out some of the most impressive. But be quick, they bloom only for a few days, and then are dormant until the next year's show.

Chelsea exhibit 'reveals a hatred of horticulture'

Monday, 24 May 2010

When you are exhibiting at the world's premier flower show you might be expected to regard gardening as one of the greater pleasures in life.

Seeds sown for new IoS gardening campaign

Sunday, 23 May 2010

The Independent on Sunday is relaunching its drive to get more children growing food at school.

The Cayeux tapestry: How one French family is growing iris hybrids fit for the Queen

Sunday, 23 May 2010

They are the Hollywood glamourpusses in the world of floral loveliness – tall and slender with a divine set of tucks and ruffles in all the right places. And, like the best film noir heroines, they even have a dark side: that brooding eroticism captured in Georgia O'Keeffe's photos. Even their name is back in fashion: thanks to Palmer, Strubegger and Van Herpen, Irises are à la mode.

After a long, hard winter, Chelsea bursts into life

Saturday, 22 May 2010

Victoria Summerley: The would-be exhibitors have been hampered by icy weather, flight chaos and worse.

Fern Britain: A 19th-century fernery has been successfully brought back to life on a Scottish island

Saturday, 22 May 2010

Wemyss Bay railway station, on the west coast of Scotland. That's where I am. But it feels as though I've been swept on to the stage of a Ruritanian operetta. In one corner, members of a silver band, wound round with instruments of monumental proportions, are belting out the kind of tunes that I seem to have known for ever. The station is a circular building, Victorian, mostly glass, with curlicues and fancy ironwork throwing extraordinary shadows on the immaculately swept floor. Big tubs of flowers line the side of the glass-covered promenade that leads to the ferry, waiting just outside. Train and ferry connect. Even that has now come to seem a marvel, enhancing the feeling that here, you are not in the real world.

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