Maggy Howarth working on a characteristically swirly pebble mosaic path for the Cancer Research UK garden at the 2004 Chelsea Flower Show - Howard Barlow Maggy Howarth, who has died aged 79, was a ...

Art in the garden -- adding a statue here, a wall plaque there -- is usually decoration, not function. Even a fountain is an adornment, unless it doubles as a birdbath. But in Jeffrey Bale's garden ...

Pebble mosaic goes back centuries; the earliest known example, a chequerboard pattern at Gordium in Turkey, dates from the eighth century BC. The ancient Greeks made floors from pebbles, while the ...