English or Japanese gardens, featuring a vegetable garden or embellished with a greenhouse, adjoining a swimming pool in the countryside or occupying a terrace in the city: there are as many types of green spaces as families on The Socialite Family! There are so many possibilities and countless ways to maintain them – apart from letting nature take over. This compilation features our interviewees’ oases, which include elegant plants with striking silhouettes alongside colourful varieties of flowers and trees. Here they are in pictures to fire your imagination and set you off designing your own! From the Marseille city garden owned by Magali Avignon – founder of Maison Enamoura – to the lush planting that makes Joumana Jacob feel “as if she’s in an old Beirut house”, to Alice Rocca’s garden in Normandy: get ready to discover verdant retreats that are as invigorating as they are refreshing.