After all, native black poplars were once so plentiful here lining the banks of the Thames and surrounding marshland that the ­London district was named after the tree. Yet this particular poplar ...

According to the London i-Tree Eco Project, an arboreal survey of the capital, there are about 8.5mn trees in the city. Only 1.36 per cent of them are planes. Plum, cherry, oak and ash all grow ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As a farmer in the 1960s and early 1970s, Giles Hue-Williams was ahead of his time. On his farm in Little ...