Exteriors

Exteriors
The Marrakesh garden centre spinning straw into shelter
A nursery owner and a craftsman in Marrakesh have collaborated to build mudhifs, millennia-old straw structures from the Southern Iraq marshlands
Author: Marie-France BoyerPhotographer: Ivan Terestchenko

Gardens
The extraordinary beauty of fashion designer Dries van Noten’s garden
Dries van Noten and Patrick Vangheluwe have fostered floral glory far from the catwalk on their 55-acre estate in Lier. Here, the pair bow down to the ultimate creative director: nature itself
Author: Alice InggsPhotographer: Elspeth Diederix and Viviane Sassen

Exteriors
The French water lily garden that inspired Monet and Dior
The water lilies bred by Joseph Bory de Latour-Marliac inspired the Giverny-dwelling Impressionist’s best-known paintings and have since never fallen out of fashion. Indeed, a recent collaboration between the Latour-Marliac nursery and Dior settles the case
Author: Marie-France Boyer

Exteriors
Villagers are devising elaborately decorated wells in the British Midlands
In a curious custom dating back centuries, wells are decorated with biblical, royal and Disney-esque figures
Author: Jane WithersPhotographer: Henry Bourne

Exteriors
The eerily enchanting Jacobean manor, Glyn Cywarch, is now available to rent
The rugged Jacobean exterior of Glyn Cywarch conceals a minimalist interior transformed by the latest generations of redoubtable Harlech women – and now, it could all be yours
Author: Alice InggsPhotographer: Emma Hardy and Alice Inggs

Gardens
Keen to modify the mood of your rooms? Trust in flower power, says Sean A. Pritchard
What do Jim Ede and Richard E. Grant have in common? Why, an eye for the emotion-stoking power of plants, of course – at least according to Sean A. Pritchard, the author of a new book on the subject
Author: Christopher Stocks

Exteriors
These pastoral gardeners are rejecting floral fripperies and digging for wilder inspirations
How can we harness nature in our own gardens, building back habitats and bringing back biodiversity in the process? The book Pastoral Gardens shows us how, with 20 inspiring projects
Author: Christopher Stocks

Exteriors
Işik Güner is on a mission to portray Turkey’s entire flora in one magnum opus
From her cabin in the Pontic mountains, illustrator Ișik Güner is making an inventory of her native land’s gorgeous biodiversity
Author: Tania ComptonPhotographer: Ngoc Minh Ngo

Exteriors
Best in show: rare photographs capture RHS Chelsea as it used to be
As the Chelsea Flower Show returns for its 113th edition, take a trip down memory lane with these John Gay photographs from more than 60 years ago
Author: Elly Parsons

Exteriors
Helen Levitt was the original New York street photographer
Leica in hand, Helen Levitt chronicled the playful cast of characters that moved through the stoops and sidewalks of New York City. A new book reveals her seldom seen early works
Author: Robin Muir