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What’s in the air this month

Lawn Enforcement • Could you be doing more to police your petunias? Armed with the most arresting garden borders, DI Rose Eaglesfield is on site to shore up your kerb appeal

Opportunity Knocks

The Drones Club • Beekeeping has been booming in Slovenia for hundreds of years, and that’s reflected in a rich material culture. In particular, there’s a buzz around its rustic apiaries, whose stacked hives were – until the late 19th century, anyway – painted with naive religious imagery and folk tales, hunting scenes and harsh satire. Combing through panels of mourning animals, shrewish peasants and ridiculed tailors, Anja Mugerli lets us feast on the nectar

Outside the Box • Farrow & Ball’s exterior range brings the nuance of the interior palette outdoors, allowing a house to sit confidently within its setting and offering durable, technical finishes that protect the structure against the changing seasons

Yew’s Been Framed • It’s high summer and yet your lawn is still in desperate need of some classic outdoor furniture to really set the languid scene. Fear not! Inspired by The Draughtsman’s Contract, Peter Greenaway’s opulent 1982 film, here’s David Lipton with his very own highly stylised bums-on-garden-seats period whodesignedit. It’s a landscape of lustworthy pieces in which topiary, ghostly garments, Baroque statuary and – obviously – a perspectograph all enjoy cameo roles… Photography: Ollie Tomlinson

Bloom Scrolling • At his studio in rural Normandy, Parme Baratier turns plants into paper, printing each species’ image on to the sheets its fibres have formed. That’s when he’s not gardening or pointing a camera, etching or making inks… With pulpy love for the polymath’s work, Tania Compton files her mash report.

Roman Phwoarum • Before eyeing up ready-to-wear in the Eternal City, Hamish Bowles grabs an afternoon to ogle aesthetic delights in scholar Mario Praz’s ravishing Wunderkammern

There’s Nowt so Queer as… Topiary • It’s an art form that wrecks ecosystems and is fatally tarnished by colonialism. So they say… but might current horticultural orthodoxy be a bit backward-looking? Designer/hedge-fun manager Nick Spain ponders the radically subversive potential – and shear joy – of clipping a bush into a bizarre shape

No Bed of Roses

Gills Allowed

Monobrowsers Welcome

People Repriser

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

SO THIS SEASON • When Dries van Noten and Patrick Vangheluwe bought the immense Ringenhof estate in Belgium, their feet were still firmly planted in the frenetic fashion world. It, meanwhile, was looking decidedly unkempt after decades of neglect. And so the designer and his partner began teasing it back to life, creating a garden of extraordinary beauty – albeit one that shaped them as much as they it. For here in Lier, far from the catwalk, spring/summer and autumn/winter have their own immutable rhythm and the pair must bow to the ultimate creative director: nature itself.

COTERIE OF ARMS • For 20 years, a couple from two noble dynasties – conjoined clans that shaped Europe’s history – have been quietly rescuing from ruin a palazzo in Salento, at the heel of Italy’s boot....