HARMONY RESTORED

For Thekla Benevello the most important aspect of her garden is the landscape in which it sits. “The environment and the views are stunning – they don’t need embellishment,” she says. “I want the garden around the house to open into the landscape and to merge seamlessly with it.” Thekla’s home in southern Normandy, France, is a collection of the stone buildings – some renovated, some still ruins – of a manor house that dates