Exteriors

Jade Angeles Fitton seeks out a rare bearded iris – ‘a comma of copper fire’ – at Sissinghurst

Dan Pearson and Huw Morgan traded in their modest Peckham allotment for a sprawling Somerset garden, with an outdoor kitchen that heaves with home-grown produce

Luciano Giubbilei’s epic garden – nicknamed ‘the Field’ – enchants a far corner of the Mallorquin countryside with exotic verdure from across the Mediterranean and Africa

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

A nursery owner and a craftsman in Marrakesh have collaborated to build mudhifs, millennia-old straw structures from the Southern Iraq marshlands

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 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

In a curious custom dating back centuries, wells are decorated with biblical, royal and Disney-esque figures

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

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

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

From her cabin in the Pontic mountains, illustrator Ișik Güner is making an inventory of her native land’s gorgeous biodiversity

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

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