The Chromatic Crescendo of Japanese Temple Gardens The Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto opens its celebrated moon-viewing platform only in autumn, aligning precisely with the harvest moon. Kyoto’s temple gardens…
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, maintains a collection of over 4,000 tropical species, many of which are surprisingly well-suited to home gardens when treated with a little seasonal ingenuity. While…
At Rousham House in Oxfordshire, the autumnal tapestry of Parrotia persica has been drawing designers to study its architecture since William Kent’s day. For contemporary landscape architects, autumn is not…
At Architectural Plants in West Sussex, a staggering array of mature tree ferns and yuccas demonstrate how tropical structure can anchor a design through the seasons. Tropical planting design is,…
Tresco Abbey Garden on the Isles of Scilly has been cultivating a world-renowned subtropical collection since 1834, demonstrating that with the right microclimate and plant selection, lush, exotic landscapes can…
The Forager’s Autumn: A Richer Palette and a Deeper Connection The cutting gardens at Green and Gorgeous in Oxfordshire are planted with an artist’s eye for autumn structure—Dahlia ‘Café au…
Petersham Nurseries in Richmond, Surrey, offers an autumn wreath-making workshop using freshly harvested hydrangeas and rose hips from their own walled garden. Across the globe, a quiet revolution is reshaping…
The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall have trialled ramial chipped wood as a mulch under their heritage apple trees, with notable improvements in soil mycorrhizal activity. This fibrous, nutrient-dense…
The Terra Preta Paradox In the Amazon basin, patches of ancient anthropogenic soil known as terra preta remain more fertile than adjacent oxisols, despite thousands of years of weathering. These…
Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens record an average decibel level of 27 dBA across their arboretum during peak autumn colour — quieter than a whisper at one metre — and the…
