What connects Nigel Slater, the Burren in Ireland and a 750-year-old temple in Kyoto?

Or, to put it another way: what is the link between Rousham House and Gardens, Crûg Farm Nursery and Luis Barragán’s plans for lava-field living in Mexico City?

Or, if you still need a clue, how about Shōden-ji, an epiphany on the side of a mountain in Borneo and Jake Hobson’s back garden in Shaftesbury?

Come on – it’s so obvious! Of course, it can only be the latest edition of our annual publication – Niwaki Field Report No. 3 – which rolled off the press and into our hands with the satisfyingly luxurious thud you’d expect from 135 pages of horticultural meanderings, all lovingly researched, photographed and assembled over the last 12 months for your reading and ogling pleasure.

It’s the perfect antidote to short-form content, AI slop and all the other horrors of the so-called ‘attention economy’: just turn off, tune out and wonder where you left your reading specs.

Niwaki Field Report No. 3 • £15