Lily, Lily, Sanguisorba, Rose
Olivia Laing
Anjelica Huston
Sir Paul Smith
Kulapat Yantrasast
Piet Oudolf
Luciano Giubbilei
Ai Weiwei
Claudia Schiffer
Tom Stuart-Smith
Yinka Ilori
Simone Rocha
Tania Compton
Georgie Hopton
Olivia Laing
Sue Stuart-Smith
Jamie Compton
Fernando Caruncho
Amanda Feilding
Ron Finley
Maggi Hambling
Polly Nicholson
Olivia Harrison
Dan Pearson
Penny Rimbaud
Margot Henderson
Duncan Grant
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Bethan Wood
Isabella Tree
Juergen Teller
Charlie McCormick
Molly Goddard
Jeremy Lee
Margaret Howell
Alys Fowler
John Pawson
Amanda Harlech
Kate Friend: ‘I Don’t Like Bouquets’
Christopher Woodward List of Works
Rosa ‘Sunstruck’ was given to me by my neighbour Lisa Smith to commemorate the passing of two of my favourite animals, Katrina and Pootie. It’s a beautiful rose, salmon pink and unassuming, and often surprises me off-season with its blooms. This is a tree that I picked off the pavement at Paramount Studios when I was filming Addams Family Values I like to think I rescued her. She blooms every year and is a strange and beautiful creature. – Anjelica Huston
Lilies of the valley are such delicate flowers and, in my experience, very hard to grow! That’s just one of the reasons that they’re so special. Another being that my wife Pauline had them in her wedding bouquet when we married. – Sir Paul Smith
Beckett the cactus was my pandemic companion. Watching him grow firmly and quietly has been such a hopeful joy. Nature nurtures! – Kulapat Yantrasast
Meconopsis cambrica (Welsh poppy) is an easy, self-seeding perennial that has existed in our gardens since we came here in the 1980s. It grows in semi-shade in colours of yellow or orange. – Piet Oudolf
A mass of Asphodelus is an entire landscape in itself: a ceaselessly mobile sea of white. In Mallorca, in the valleys around Son Servera, where I live, I have encountered the plant as never before: vast naturalised fields scattered with olive trees, which are particularly spectacular in late winter and early spring. The plants are incredibly architectural, with stems that stand upright and the ability to hold themselves gracefully in the strongest winds. Even when the flower has passed, the elegant structure remains. –
Luciano Giubbilei
Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’ is by far the biggest and wildest rose in my garden. It grows up a high, south-facing wall between a crab apple and a fig, tumbling over itself to make a kind of waterfall you can stand beneath. In May it produces an overwhelming abundance of tiny primrose-yellow flowers, sprays that coincide with the last of the tulips and mean winter is gone for good. – Olivia Laing
Published in 2022
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