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1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Tiffany Daneff

   'I’m not after perfection; I’m after feeling. If people walk through here and feel joy, I’ve succeeded’: Matthew Rice on his gorgeous garden at Ham Court (opens the original)

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   'When people say “there was no garden here when we arrived”, usually you still find a philadelphus, a lilac, apple trees, roses lurking about. Here, there was nothing.’ All Matthew Rice discovered among the scattered 1960s and 1970s agricultural buildings and concrete working yards surrounding his home, Ham Court in Oxfordshire, was a lonely orange hybrid tea, a limp wisteria still tied to its bamboo cane and about 30 lily of the valley by the front door. Rice, whose architectural illustrations

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2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Tiffany Daneff

   What tulips should you plant this autumn? Alan Titchmarsh, Isabella Bannerman and 10 more of Britain's best gardeners and writers give their answer (opens the original)

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   I love what I call the ‘stained tulips’ — those with contrasting venations and stripes that smack of the old Dutch flower paintings. I plant up 10in terracotta pots with 10 bulbs of each: varieties such as ‘Gavota’ (plum purple and yellow), ‘Rem’s Favourite’ (purple and white) and ‘Princess Irene’ (dusky pink and salmon). My wife adores red tulips, so in the rectangular beds on either side of the house we planted two different varieties: ‘Ile de France’ and ‘Kingsblood’. At the risk of being unp

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