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Editor’s Letter • July 2025

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Seed Capital • Keen to invest in feeders fly enough to attract the very best avian clientele? David Lipton’s clutch of cotes should fit the bill

Announcing the Jury • A legendary Manhattan bon vivant and an Olivier Award-winning actor join this year’s judging panel

Genus Loci • The thing that gives Crûg Farm Plants, a nursery nestled near Anglesey, its special ambience is plainly the plethora of unusual plant types. It’s all down to Bleddyn and Sue Wynn-Jones, botanical explorers that are perennially hunting far-flung habitats for stand-out specimens. James Compton marvels at the couple’s genera knowledge.

Cut-outs and Keepers • A découpe de coeur of classical statues lends languorous longevity to outdoor daybeds, chairs, tables and lamps that will last a lifetime. The only thing carved in stone is that these timeless pieces will withstand any climate. So relish them alfresco, aperitivo in hand, urges heirloom hunter Gianluca Longo – imperial busts optional.

The Glassy Knoll • Viewed from the studio window at Charlotte Verity’s new home in Somerset, one particular hill already features large in the artist’s daily walks and work – including delicate studies of its flora that she meticulously paints on Perspex before printing. She’s very clearly on to a winner here, says Tania Compton.

Chequered History • Striding across the marble floors at Rembrandt’s restored former home in Amsterdam, Hamish Bowles muses on the highs and lows of the artist’s life

Power to the Peephole • Is the urge to pore over strangers’ interiors purely voyeuristic? Alice Inggs offers a more rosy (and less nosy) interpretation

Thrill of the Chaise

Self-ceding

Weather Eye

Desert Store

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

THE GREEN KNIGHTS • Landscape designers Isabel and Julian Bannerman are legendary for their daring horticultural feats, but that’s hardly the limit of the pair’s powers. In fact, they’ve also ridden to the rescue of several unlovely estates – the latest distressed damsel being the burnt-out and badly served Ashington Manor in Somerset, now returned to its proper Elizabethan proportions dianthus, tanacetum and astrantia and richly rewilded with accoutrements from the couple’s former castle digs. Ruth Guilding gallops into the fray.

MINISTER OF THE CROWNS • Leading WoI to a valley in Turkey full of crown imperials is all in a day’s work for adventurous botanical illustrator Işik Güner. While she has contributed to compendia on the flora of Chile and Nepal, making an inventory of her native land’s gorgeous biodiversity is now her governing passion. And, as Tania Compton discovers, the plant portraitist’s studio in the Pontic mountains proves to be the perfect base from which to go habitat hunting.

TEMPLES FUGIT • Another day, another handful of precast modular temples fly off the production line at octogenarian Lin Fu-Chun’s factory in Taiwan. Intricately detailed, with final designs rubber-stamped by the gods, they’ll wing their way by road to the most unlikely of consecrated spots. It’s not quite flat-pack Buddhism and Taoism, says Kerstin Hsu, but that surely can’t be far...