We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. The British fall cannot match the autumn colours on trees along much of America’s east coast or away in ...

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 ...

Isle of Arran, Firth of Clyde: These self-cloned Sorbus species are unique not only to Arran but to two particular glens Glen Catacol is hot, humid, slightly overcast, and nothing stirs the air. In ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Against expectations, in Britain we have been having a beautiful fall. I know it cannot compete with Vermont, ...

Sorbus species, commonly known as rowans, represent a diverse and underutilised group within the Rosaceae family, noted for their rich content of bioactive compounds. Recent studies have highlighted ...

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 ...

In 2007, researchers were excited to announce that they had discovered a new species of tree that was unique to the Isle of Arran. It was the Catacol whitebeam (Sorbus pseudomeinichii), named after ...

From August onwards, a common sight on Britain's hills and heaths is the orange berries of the rowan or mountain ash. Many of us are surprised at how early they are and often take them as the first ...