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Why is it that once the weather starts to warm up my mind automatically turns to gardening? Yes I’m addicted to all things interior design but I can’t help loving a house’s exterior and it’s immediate surrounds just as much. Lush and green, stimulating, relaxing and cocooning, alive and inspiring. Give me a gorgeous house but make sure it has a lovely garden. Oh and if it has a space for entertaining family and friends as well as a killer fireplace even better. Northcote garden by Melbourne-based landscape designers Peachy Green (cool name).

Photography by Tom Blachford

What a week! I need a break. Unfortunately I can’t escape the real world so it will have to be a virtual getaway. Today’s daydream is bought to you by Atelier du Pont whose transformation of this holiday house in Menorca, Spain ticks all my boxes. I can feel the stress melting away already. (Photos: Karel Balas & Manuel Zublena)

The designers imagined it as an Old Hollywood film. The plants were the character actors. Or was it a party  with lots of intriguing botanical guests? Perhaps a dream. Yes an intoxicating dream.

“This is the New Old Hollywood. We exhale the botanical illusions of our own making. We dream again of the garden: the dream is a garden; the garden is a dream.”

Whitley Heights Garden by Los Angeles based landscape architect Terremoto.

Over 2000 thousand concrete tiles and lots of colour-blocking in this 2 bedroom penthouse for two chefs in London’s Kings Cross designed by Rhonda Drakeford. Which seems right on point with the designer’s bio: Her work is fearless and exciting — playfully and skilfully mixing international and historical references, strong colour themes, texture and pattern. A deep respect for order and function is offset with joyful twists and sensory surprises. A strong narrative thread runs through Rhonda’s output, which is gleefully referential and wedded to concepts that are subversive and purposefully playful. A love of contrast and experimental materials and colour palettes have become a signature part of her bold portfolio.

(Photos: Rachael Smith)

Wander along a curving path. Pass through a shuttered gateway. Enter a dreamy garden, beautiful but watch the spikes. Dry as a bone but full of life. Continue if you must into beckoning interiors or linger if you can. Yes linger in this Mornington Dream Garden by Melbourne-based Phillip Withers Landscape Design.