
Monthly Archives: July 2013


France in spring
An armchair cruise this week to Van Gogh’s last poppy fields, a vertiginous cactus garden above the Riviera and the extravagant Villa Ephrussi Rothschild at St Jean Cap Ferat (even the address is over the top!). These are a few…
Orchids in the cloud forest
‘A City in a Garden’ is the Singapore government’s catchcry, and it’s serious. Gardens by the Bay is the headline project, a 121-hectare, three-stage horticultural extravaganza on reclaimed land at the mouth of the Singapore River. It’s not just big,…
Jardin Plume: the new way with grass
Jardin Plume, the garden of Patrick and Sylvie Quibel, has the garden world buzzing. The Quibels are passionate nursery people who, 15 years ago, carved this garden out of an old apple orchard in the windswept lowlands of Normandy, about two…