Exteriors
Gardens
From pristine greens to sloping beauties, parasols to peonies, shade yourself in the boughs of our garden stories
Latest Stories

Gardens
Fjord fiesta: a 19th-century Swedish estate that celebrates architecture, landscape and sea
What do you get when an Anglophile architect and heiress collaborate? Tjolöholm Castle, an Arts and Crafts dreamscape with a decidedly Nordic accent and breathtaking views of the Kattegat sea
Author: Michaela NilssonPhotographer: Fanny Rådvik

Bookshop
Fungi to be with: discover the magic of mushrooms in this trippy tome
It’s prime picking season for fungi – in all their gastronomic, artistic and pop-cultural – as a new book on mushrooms forages far and wide, not only for button-based recipes but also the mysteries and marvels of all things mycological
Author: Sukhdev Sandhu

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

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


Gardens
A prickly, pink-hued garden in Chile saves Earth’s endangered plants
With a climate crisis and poachers at large, even botany’s tough guys – cacti, puyas et al – need a helping hand. Cue Ximena Nazal and her garden in Chile
Author: Lottie DelamainPhotographer: Cristóbal Palma

Gardens
The garden at Sissinghurst is a silvery dreamscape by moonlight
Reduced to melancholy fragments, the romantic garden at the great Elizabethan house of Sissinghurst in Kent remains it’s main draw. In daylight it radiates with transient beauty, but in moonlight the grounds quietly conjure a silvery dreamscape…
Author: Adam NicolsonPhotographer: Nikolai von Bismarck

Gardens
Artist Yto Barrada’s Tangier summerhouse is transformed into an artists’ retreat
Nature’s colours give meaning to the work of Yto Barrada, and many of the textile artist’s experiments blossomed into life at the Mothership, her dyeing complex in Tangier close to where she grew up
Author: Hamish BowlesPhotographer: Vasantha Yogananthan

Gardens
The reincarnation of a sacred monastery garden on the island of Lopud
Over the course of 20 years, art collector-turned-monastery rescuer Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza restored a sacred refuge on a secluded Croatian island to its former glory
Author: Cosmo Brockway