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The Marrakesh garden centre spinning straw into shelter
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
The extraordinary beauty of fashion designer Dries van Noten’s garden
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
The French water lily garden that inspired Monet and Dior
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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
Villagers are devising elaborately decorated wells in the British Midlands
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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
The eerily enchanting Jacobean manor, Glyn Cywarch, is now available to rent
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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
Keen to modify the mood of your rooms? Trust in flower power, says Sean A. Pritchard
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
These pastoral gardeners are rejecting floral fripperies and digging for wilder inspirations
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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
Işik Güner is on a mission to portray Turkey’s entire flora in one magnum opus
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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
Best in show: rare photographs capture RHS Chelsea as it used to be
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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
Helen Levitt was the original New York street photographer
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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