For everyone else, it’s a a good prompt to start preparing your garden for the colder months. After all, the first frost ...

Forgotten British folklore gathered by a Victorian gardener — dreaming of cucumbers leads to true love, apparently — is the subject of a free RHS lecture ...

In the lead-up to Halloween, front porches across the country feature fat, proudly carved pumpkins, lit from within by tea lights. But this year there is likely to be a shortage due to drought, ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. Walk past an American porch in late October and you’ll see that familiar glow: big orange pumpkins grinning ...

Exclusive: Clare Matterson, the head of the Royal Horticultural Society, talks about the charity’s £2.3m roadworks compensation, community gardening and her high hopes for Andy Burnham The government ...