MPG member Umberto Pasti has created a wild garden in north-west Morocco, pictured here courtesy of Ngoc Minh Ngo. The garden has two parts – an area with two cottages set among New World plants – cannas, cosmos, sunflowers, zinnias, tithonias and Amaryllis belladonna, with Moroccan flora on the hills, many species of irises and daffodils, hundreds of other bulbs, and strawberry trees, viburnums, brooms and rockroses. A life-long plant enthusiast, Umberto also has a town house and garden, the subject of a book The House of a Lifetime: A Collector’s Journey in Tangier, authored and illustrated by him and Ngoc Minh Ngo, where he has a museum-quality collection of treasures.