It's the same with garden hats. When I was younger, I couldn't have cared less about the sunburn that brightened my skin wherever my skimpy clothes didn't cover.

George's gardening hat came from the Shiloh Nurseries booth at the Mid-Atlantic Garden Show, but it's made by Dorfman Pacific Headwear of Stockton, Calif.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In her mission to persuade Victorian ladies that gardening was respectable, one of the obstacles that ...

Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden hosted the second annual Hearts-n-Bloom Garden Tea Party last Saturday, attracting 80 colorfully-clad ladies and gents. Attendees enjoyed high tea provided by… ...