The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.

Describes how you own a property. There are different types of tenure - freehold, leasehold, and commonhold.Read more about tenure in our glossary page. Detached two bedroom home backing onto a ...

Anthony Powell said that John Betjeman had ‘a whim of iron’. To judge by these compulsive letters, Patrick Leigh Fermor had a pleasure-loving streak of purest titanium. From the first letter, written ...

A kind reader sends David Bentley Hart’s column about Patrick Leigh Fermor on the occasion of his 2011 death. Excerpts: While he was serving as an intelligence officer in Nazi-occupied Crete ...