Current Obsessions: Secret Crush

Our Valentine to you: tiny baskets, quilted stamps, an Instagram account to dream about, and more. Read on:

Above: Designer Andrew Trotter’s moody and mysterious Casa Soleto in Puglia. Photograph via Andrew Trotter.

Ooh, Tiwa Select is in London—and they’re open for office hours.
Amanda Seyfried has a hidden talent: basket making.
A poet and a novelist at home in an 1860s sea-biscuit factory.
A Valentine for your four-legged friends (hat tip: Margot).
Would you live in a replica of Thoreau’s cabin? These people are.
Attn. New Yorkers: Antiques gallery PRB Collection of High Point, NC, has a “residency” at Zak + Fox’s lovely NYC showroom.
Time to try the German practice of lüften?
The stamps we want to send all our love letters with.
The fish trend continues (hat tip: Julie).
10 things our editors are coveting this Valentine’s Day.
We’re taking to heart houseplant stylist Rob Moffitt’s advice to use a shallow dish for a planter. This Bergs Potter bowl, with a drainage hole, makes it easy.
Do you follow Portuguese gardener Margarida Maia on Instagram? Her extraordinary photos are like paintings.
This post from the@accidentallywesanderson account is so good! (Hat tip: Fan.)
Rethinking backyard beekeeping.
In the market for a Bad Bunny grass people costume? You’re in luck!!
From Laura: “This jewelry cast from seeds collected for The Wild Seed Project is 100 percent a current obsession! Adding the golden alexander seed studs to my wish list.”
A moving essay about loss, memory, and Sanguisorba.
And ICYMI, here’s one of the winning projects from this year’s Society of Garden and Landscape Designers awards.