Garden Design

Near Cape Town, a farmstead hotel restores gardens and spirits. 

Turkish architect Emre Ozberk designs miniature landscapes that are meant to be pruned, weeded, and mowed. Call it armchair gardening. The earliest landscapes were rooted in his the perfectly sized food bowls of his cat, Papas, for whom the collection is named.

Melbourne-based artist Corey Thomas takes inspiration from everyday seeds. 

With commentary by Oehme, van Sweden principal Eric Groft. 

Named for its graceful clumps of narrow foliage and nodding bottlebrush-like flowers, Pennisetum alopecuroides is “a true four-season grass that brings the feeling of the waterfront right into the garden. It catches the wind and nods its foxtail flowerheads into pools seemingly for a drink.”