Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Come and live at the bottom of the garden and be my Valentine . . . you do not have to be a fairy but you have to be ...

If you’re a gardener, this time of year likely has you thinking about the backyard. Your plans might include moving the flower beds or restocking the fish pond. They do not, most likely, involve ...

Who would be a hermit? Dwelling in solitude with just a few books, choice objects and spiders for company, sleeping on a rude wooden bed, feasting on herbs and berries, contemplating oblivion… Well, a ...

For those who are wondering what to buy the person who has everything this Christmas, a University of Leicester academic has suggested one of history's most bizarre garden accessories: an 'ornamental' ...

In their performance piece “Gnome Core,” artist Alex Tatarsky plays a cranky hermit with one of the worst jobs in history. Artist in residence Alex Tatarsky developed their performance while exploring ...

How did the tradition of garden gnomes begin? Who came up with the idea of decorating the green area of the home with figurines, some even polychromatic, of these fantastic creatures? We will never ...