Knepp is the home of Isabella Tree, a journalist and the author of Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm and the conservationist Charlie Burrell. Since 2000 they have ‘pioneered the ‘rewilding’ of their estate constituting 3,500 acres of rural west Sussex including areas of lowland…
A few years ago I listened to this podcast and later bought Tin Can Magic, Jess’s first cookbook, then her second, then her third. I followed her on Instagram and always found the dispatches from her cafe and later studio in Edinburgh inspiring because they struck me as so personal
Enclosed by high walls, Fiona Inglis of PYRUS has curated a growing space where every variety is chosen and cherished. At this time of the year the apple trees are smothered with fruit and the roses draped with necklaces of nasturtium, their vibrant petals streaked with…
Spring. The verb ‘to spring’ from the Middle English sprygen - ‘to burst or flow forth, to sprout, to emerge, to happen, to become known’. As a noun, from Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”), from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”)
Les Confines is a beautiful Provencal house with incredible gardens to get lost in. The temperature rocketed the week of the wedding and the surrounding landscape of orchards and olive groves was unusally dry for May, fields of pale swaying oats rimmed by swathes of bright field poppies.
For this spring wedding at the Savile Club in Mayfair we cut lots of double tulips - pale pink ‘Angelique’, creamy yellow ‘Avant Garde’ and honey-hued ‘Copper Image’. Our footed centrepieces are designed to be seen from all angles and take centre stage…
