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Looking for some garden inspiration? Let’s do some “armchair travelling” across the Pacific to one of the world’s loveliest places for garden viewing: Kyoto, Japan. Do you want your garden to be a ...

Buck is a California garden designer and aesthetic pruner who went to Japan for a three-month apprenticeship in Kyoto, working in some of Japan’s renowned gardens. Her memoir is a mix of gardening ...

Kyoto is one of those rare cities that stays with you. It slows you down, reconnects you with yourself and reminds you of the ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wealth in Japan has long been hidden in plain sight. What better place to hide wealth than by deploying it in ...

The past two columns in this space have focused on the formal gardens of Kyoto, Japan and some ideas that can be borrowed from them for use in our own home gardens. But what about the average urban ...