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Lotte Glob’s norm-defying sculptures cling to the northern Scottish landscape

The Danish artist and sculptor’s practice draws its power from nature – and the maker’s aversion to following rules

The rich literary history of Brookwood garden in Cooperstown

Established on the southern end of Lake Otsego in 1786 by the father of novelist James Fenimore Cooper, Cooperstown has a little-known history as the cradle of admired private gardens

From the archive: Gertrude Jekyll garden at Vann

From taming woodland and deterring greedy deer to picking pesky purple crocuses out of the white spring beds, the Caroes have their work cut out in the Gertrude Jekyll garden at Vann, their Arts and Crafts home in Surrey

The quirky geological museum created by a passionate collector is today one of east Iceland’s least-known gems

In an out-of-the-way fishing village on a fjord, the collector Ljósbjörg Petra María Sveinsdóttir put her rock and mineral collection on display and rejoiced in sharing it with others. Fifty years on, her home museum and garden still cast a spell

The bizarre ‘Ideas Magazine’ and its eccentric garden follies

First published in 1796, Ideas Magazine featured all manner of ways in which ‘educated nations’ could indulge their burgeoning passion for peculiar garden follies and ornaments. From haute-couture hen houses to wacky Ferris wheels, the more fanciful the better

Janus et Cie opens first London flagship

Luxury garden furnishings company Janus et Cie Opens London Flagship Showroom

Artist Yto Barrada’s transformed summerhouse in Tangier

Nature’s colours give meaning to the work of Yto Barrada, and many of the textile artist’s experiments blossomed into life at the Mothership, her dyeing complex in Tangier close to where she grew up

Luciano Giubbilei’s wild garden in northeastern Mallorca

So little noticed by passers-by is Luciano Giubbilei’s wild garden in northeastern Mallorca that Tania Compton wonders if the dry-stone wall snaking around it serves as an invisibility cloak

Teresa Moller navigates Punta Pite’s craggy coastline in granite slabs

Forty stonemasons have toiled for two years to fulfil placemaker Teresa Moller’s vision: an epic path on costal granite slabs of Chile's Punta Pite

Edward Steichen: the oracle of delphiniums

Prophet of photography Edward Steichen broke new ground in the plant pantheon too, as a 1936 Moma exhibition amply attested. Amy Sherlock (and Tim Walker) nod to the oracle of delphiniums