Charles Darwin’s childhood garden on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, was an enchanting place, a paradise of winding paths and shaded lawns, with flowers and fruit from both near and far.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The garden at Down House in what was then Kent, a former parsonage to which Charles Darwin moved in 1842 after ...

If you were to regally recline in a chair in one of the grand rooms on the ground floor of Chatsworth House and gaze out over the south lawn, you might feel like you were looking back through time. At ...