A boxwood parterre with topiary and roses, bordered by lemon trees, in front of the manor house of Condes de Santar e Magalhães in central Portugal. Read more here.
In the gardens of the creative director Richard Christiansen’s Los Angeles home, Flamingo Estate, a fountain filled with Cara Cara oranges from the organic fruit farm Ken’s Top Notch Produce. Read more here.
A view of the peony beds in the garden of the English floral designer Milli Proust’s 17th-century home in the Sussex countryside. The fencing is made from coppiced chestnut and hazel. Read more here.
The photographer Bill Henson turned the former parking lot next door to his studio in the Northcote suburb of Melbourne, Australia, into a botanical garden. Read more here.
Allium, foxglove, chives, alchemilla and roses grow in the designer Jasper Conran’s tangled garden in Dorset, England. Read more here.
A view of the Atlantic Ocean from the writer and horticulturist Umberto Pasti’s garden, Rohuna, an hour’s drive south of Tangier. Read more here.
A rooftop garden on Paris’s Rue Vieille du Temple that the landscape architect Arnaud Casaus designed, featuring narrow-leaved mock privet, African lily, rosemary, Mediterranean spurge and Verbena bonariensis, among other plants. The Willy Guhl chairs are vintage. Read more here.
At the end of a walking path near the actress Julianne Moore and the filmmaker Bart Freundlich’s house in Montauk, N.Y., a stone bench by the artist Robert Gurr. Read more here.
Standard trained white wisteria, climbing roses and Oriental poppies in the rose border of the writer Olivia Laing’s home in Suffolk, England. Read more here.
In the Brazilian landscape architect Isabel Duprat’s Jardim Botânico in São Paulo, a low-lying cover of grama-amendoim is fringed by monarch ferns, St. Christopher’s lily and purple taro, and shaded by towering Brazilian cedar. A sculpture by Franz Weissmann is visible, back right. Read more here.
Louis Benech, France’s most revered landscape designer, created the gardens at Mas Sainte-Anne, the home of François and Maryvonne Pinault outside St.-Tropez. More than 20 years later, the area is lush with lavender, Helichrysum petiolare and olive trees. Read more here.
The cutting garden at Robin Hill, the art dealer Susan Sheehan and the rug trader John O’Callaghan’s neo-Georgian mansion in Norfolk, Conn., is situated in a woodland clearing and includes a seasonally changing selection of perennials used for arrangements in the house. Read more here.
The view from Robin Standefer’s ceramics studio on the Montauk, N.Y., property she shares with her husband and design partner, Stephen Alesch, includes a large Tardiva hydrangea, Queen Anne’s lace, cosmos and white yarrow. Read more here.
The landscape designer Dan Pearson’s expansive Somerset estate celebrates the English countryside. Here, an ornamental garden transitions seamlessly to a wildflower meadow, where Pearson and his longtime romantic partner and collaborator, Huw Morgan, walk along the mowed path. Read more here.
More than 150 varieties of cactus, cultivated since the 1960s by the Thiemann family, grow on 17 desert acres outside of Marrakesh. Read more here.
In the hills of southwest England, the writer Ian McEwan and his wife, the novelist Annalena McAfee, have added a joyfully unruly bed of foxglove, lady’s mantle, iris, allium and meadow rue to one of the yew-hedge rooms on their nine-acre Cotswolds property. Read more here.
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