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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

Tania Compton outlines her Herculean labours, having faced compacted earth and a fierce climate to plant ancient olive trees on terraces, fragrant maquis and waves of wildflowers that were written about by Pliny the Elder